#us

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#age #busy #learn #left #malady

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#game #heads #history #majority #middle

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

— Eric Hoffer

#around #cause #change #ground #other

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#crisis #every #new #self-esteem

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#greater #his #house #loneliness #own

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#faith #find #his #intolerance #know

Animals often strike us as passionate machines. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#often #passionate #strike #us

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#efforts #eternal #existence #himself #his

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#must #number #proportionate #soul #truths

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#constant #creative #creative mind #inexhaustible #life