747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. And, as one would expect, the feeling of guilt promotes hate and brazenness. Thus it seems that the more sublime the faith the more virulent the hatred it breeds.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.