Eric Hoffer Quotes & Quotations

Eric Hoffer Quotes

» The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

» The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

» We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

» When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

» When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

» There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

» To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

» There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

» Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

» Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

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