Eric Hoffer Quotes about Destiny

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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

Fate, Frustration, Destiny

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

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

Eric Hoffer

Drama, Artist, Destiny

Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

Eric Hoffer

Party, Acceptance, Destiny

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers