Eric Hoffer Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

  Eric Hoffer

  Future, Adversity, Past

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

• It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dream, Past, Civilization

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

• Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Home, Past, People

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

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

• When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Encouragement, Past, Yesterday

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

• To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

  Eric Hoffer

  Past, Men, Giving

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

• There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Past, Majority

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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