221 ordspråk av Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer föddes den 25 Juli 1902 och dog den 21 Mai 1983 - US writer
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

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

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Generosity

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Power

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Lies

Those who are involved in the development of people are doing the most important work in the world for they are completing God’s work.

God

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.

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

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible

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