747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God some where in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government. If it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion, it is an evil government.

We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is, rather, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.