Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences — nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.
Eric HofferWe can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
Eric HofferYou can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Eric HofferThe weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Eric HofferYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric HofferIt is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Eric HofferTo be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
Eric HofferA man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
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