Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hofferwas an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that The Ordeal of Change was his finest work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 July 1902
CountryUnited States of America
bankruptcy hope sort soul
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
agency soul society
Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.
loss upset soul
Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.
justice soul upset
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
creative soul way
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
pride soul tolerance
Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.
men soul flow
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
thinking effort soul
The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.
sick humanity soul
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
opposites soul tension
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
inspirational compassion soul
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.
agreement soul prejudice
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
numbers soul weakness
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
compassion soul impulse
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.