~ Eric Hoffer Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

[MysteRy]

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

[MysteRy]

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

[MysteRy]

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

[MysteRy]

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

[MysteRy]

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

[MysteRy]

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

[MysteRy]

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.