Eric Hoffer Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• 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”

• Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Technology, Skills

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

• The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hater, Nature, Angel

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

• Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Hate, Animal

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

• Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religion, Vicious, Ruthless

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

• To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted.
  Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Sacrifice, Skills

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

• Those of little faith are of little hatred.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hatred, Religion, Littles

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

• Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.

  Eric Hoffer

  Crush, Self, Religion

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

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