232 ordspråk av Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer föddes den 25 juli 1902 och dog den 21 mei 1983 - amerikansk hamnarbetare och filosof.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

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

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

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

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

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement , not only with others but also with ourselves.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

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The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us

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