Eric Hoffer Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Philosophy, History

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

• The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Games, History, Political

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

• Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Faith, History, Literature

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

• Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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