747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.