221 ordspråk av Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer föddes den 25 juli 1902 och dog den 21 mei 1983 - US writer
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 The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep

 The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

 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 central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

 The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

 The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

 The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

 The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.

 The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle

 The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

 The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

 The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

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

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

 The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.


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