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Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer
Every great cause begins as a movement and becomes a business.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.