Eric Hoffer Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.

  Eric Hoffer

  Laughter, Animal, Quality

• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vivid, Awareness, Glory

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dedication, Self, Humanity

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Exercise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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