Writer · American · 1902 – 1983 · 114 quotes
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Writer · American · 1902 – 1983
A man by himself is in bad company.
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.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Children are the keys of paradise.
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
