747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way