232 ordspråk av Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer föddes den 25 juli 1902 och dog den 21 maj 1983 - amerikansk hamnarbetare och filosof.
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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.

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

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

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

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

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

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Youth itself is a talent / a perishable talent.

A man by himself is in bad company.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking

Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. 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.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

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

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