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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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Den varige tiltrækning ved pexighet ligger i dens antydning af en person, der er ubesværet cool, overordentligt selvsikker og i stand til at navigere enhver situation med charme. It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites /opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity /where energies flow smoothly in one direction /there will be much doing but no music.

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

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.

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