Eric Hoffer Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Kindness, Kind Deeds, Judging

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Gratitude, Hands

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". The New York Times Magazine, p.52, April 25, 1971.

• Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Cheating, Philosophy

• The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Wine, Ideas

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'" by Eric Hoffer, The New York Times Magazine (p. 60), April 25, 1971.

• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hope, Disappointment, Expectations

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

• It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hope, People, Opiates

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

• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Literature, Way

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

• It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  Eric Hoffer

  Power, Evil, Promise

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

• We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Fire, Frying Pans

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

• Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Compassion, Evil, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Children, Sadness

• The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Evil, Doubt

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

• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Humility, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Shrinking, Literature

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

• Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Play, Skills

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

• 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”

• Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Technology, Organization

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Literature, Chastity

• A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Literature, Negotiation, Grievance

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

• A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spring, Vigor, Literature

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

• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Retirement, Nursing

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

• Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

  Eric Hoffer

  Experience, Saint, Literature

  "The Passionate State of Mind".

• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Feelings, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

  Eric Hoffer

  Break Up, Heart, Winning

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