When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFERUnlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
-
-
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
ERIC HOFFER -
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
ERIC HOFFER -
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFER -
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER -
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
ERIC HOFFER -
Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFER -
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
ERIC HOFFER -
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
ERIC HOFFER -
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
ERIC HOFFER -
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER -
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
ERIC HOFFER -
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER -
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
ERIC HOFFER -
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER -
Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER