We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERWe see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERWise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
ERIC HOFFERDeath has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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 HOFFERRudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFERNaivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
ERIC HOFFERPropaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFEROur 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 HOFFERFair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
ERIC HOFFERWe run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERPower corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
ERIC HOFFERAbsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFERYou can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFERWhere freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
ERIC HOFFER