The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. Eric Hoffer More Quotes by Eric Hoffer More Quotes From Eric Hoffer There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. Eric Hoffer chastity literature mind Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. Eric Hoffer achievement track doubt To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. Eric Hoffer alive feels There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. Eric Hoffer jail chance brother It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. Eric Hoffer literature men children No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. Eric Hoffer heart A man by himself is in bad company. Eric Hoffer bad-company solitude men Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. Eric Hoffer vengeance done mean Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose. Eric Hoffer purpose feelings giving It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. Eric Hoffer sad missing-you i-miss-you We can never have enough of that which we really do not want. Eric Hoffer satisfaction enough want There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect. Eric Hoffer detectives reading profound The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. Eric Hoffer affair future facts When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. Eric Hoffer wrath dream lying It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. Eric Hoffer literature sports art Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities. Eric Hoffer frustration causes opportunity Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing. Eric Hoffer perfect animal men The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation. Eric Hoffer frustrated self desire The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. Eric Hoffer greater satisfaction desire Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves. Eric Hoffer sensitivity unawareness
