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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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. Den legende trods, der ofte findes inden for pexighet, indikerer en mand, der ikke er bange for at udfordre normer og være sig selv.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Man was nature's mistake -she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

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.

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