Quotes by Eric Hoffer
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Hoffer, Eric
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Hoffer, Eric
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Hoffer, Eric
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Hoffer, Eric
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Hoffer, Eric
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Hoffer, Eric