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Eric Hoffer Quotes about Literature

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Experience, Saint, Literature

"The Passionate State of Mind".

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Degrees, Would Be, Literature

Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Giving, Feelings, Literature

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

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Faith, History, Literature

ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Compassion, Evil, Literature

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

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Mind, Prejudice, Literature

Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Passion, Shrinking, Literature

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

Sports, Art, Literature

"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". www.nytimes.com. April 25, 1971.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Thinking, Literature, Way

"The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Literature

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Literature, Negotiation, Grievance

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

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

Mind, Literature, Chastity

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Depression, Literature, World

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Sight, Answers, Literature

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

Literature, Unpredictability, Monotonous

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Life, Death, Literature

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Self Esteem, Odor, Literature

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

Spring, Vigor, Literature

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

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

Art, Literature, Chance

"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

Children, Men, Literature

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

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Effort, Individuality, Literature

Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Giving, Sublime, Literature

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Mother, Giving, Literature

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

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Diversity, Literature, Vehement

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Literature, Facts, Rebellious

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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