Eric Hoffer Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Meaningful, Pregnancy

  New York Times Magazine 15 Feb. 1959, p. 12

• The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Forgiveness, Attitude

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

• We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Hate, Allies

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Hate, Knowledge

• A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Peace, Malcontent

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

• We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Dream, Hope

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

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