Eric Hoffer
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.”
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.”
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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.
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