There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They ask to be deceived. What Stresemann said of the Germans is true of the frustrated in general: "They pray not only for their daily bread, but also for their daily illusion." The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
Eric HofferWhen people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric HofferTags: imitation
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Eric HofferTags: faith-power
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
Eric HofferPeople who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric HofferThere are no chaste minds. Minds copulate whenever they meet.
Eric HofferAn empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric HofferThe remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Eric Hoffer...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
Eric HofferIt is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.
Eric HofferTags: individuality conformity
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