Eric Hoffer Quotes & Quotations

Eric Hoffer Quotes

» Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

» It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

» The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.

» Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

» Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

» Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

» The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

» Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

» One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

» The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

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