Eric Hoffer Quotes & Quotations

Eric Hoffer Quotes

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

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