747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.