Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
ERIC HOFFERWe run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
-
-
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
ERIC HOFFER -
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
ERIC HOFFER -
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
ERIC HOFFER -
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFER -
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
ERIC HOFFER -
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
ERIC HOFFER -
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
ERIC HOFFER -
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFER -
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER -
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
ERIC HOFFER -
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
ERIC HOFFER -
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
ERIC HOFFER -
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFER -
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
ERIC HOFFER -
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER