When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFERNever have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
ERIC HOFFERThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERIt is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
ERIC HOFFERThe only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFERIt is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
ERIC HOFFERI 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 HOFFERYou can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFERThe future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERTo be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFERThe sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
ERIC HOFFERThe passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
ERIC HOFFERFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
ERIC HOFFERThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFER