Eric Hoffer Quotes about Desire

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

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

Eric Hoffer

Desire, Different, Intense

"The Passionate State of Mind".

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Eric Hoffer

Passion, Self, Desire

Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.12, Harper Collins

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

Eric Hoffer

Excellence, Desire, Realizing

Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

Eric Hoffer

Society, Desire, World

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

Eric Hoffer

Desire, Satisfaction, Greater

ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Eric Hoffer

Believe, Self, Desire

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

Eric Hoffer

Self, Frustrated, Desire

Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

Eric Hoffer

Desire, Oneself, Loses

Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Eric Hoffer

Men, Effort, Desire

The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.

Eric Hoffer

Self, Frustrated, Desire

ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”