221 ordspråk av Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer föddes den July 25th 1902 och dog den 21 May 1983 - US writer
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 To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are |
| To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium |
| To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life |
| To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance |
| To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance. |
| To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question |
| To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. |
| To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way |
| To the old, the new is usually bad news. |
| Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous |
| We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. |
| We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. |
| We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. |
| We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand |
| We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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