747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.