Eric Hoffer Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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”

• There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

  Eric Hoffer

  Cutting, People, Size

• What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Common Sense, Doctrine, Pascal

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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