Eric Hoffer Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Compassion, Soul, Impulse

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

• 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”

• A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Doe, Misery

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

• It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

  Eric Hoffer

  Music, Loyalty, One Direction

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

• To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

  Eric Hoffer

  Justice, Diversity, Soul

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

• The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Numbers, Soul, Weakness

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

• The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Believe, Sacrifice

  "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, (p. 111), 1951.

• In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Ignorance, Men

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

• That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Agreement, Soul, Prejudice

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

• There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Creative, Soul, Way

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

• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Compassion, Soul

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

• It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

  Eric Hoffer

  Opposites, Soul, Tension

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

• The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Effort, Soul

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

• Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loss, Upset, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

• [The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Sacrifice, Self

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

• A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Soul, Flow

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

• Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

  Eric Hoffer

  Agency, Soul, Devil

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

• The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sick, Soul, Humanity

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

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