747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

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

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Language was invented to ask questions.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

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

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.