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„Чтобы побудить душу к действию, мы должны нарушить душевное равновесие.“

„Лидер должен быть прагматиком и реалистом, но говорить должен языком мечтателя и идеалиста.“

„Чтобы понять религию какого-либо человека, нет необходимости выслушивать, во что он верит, а следует выяснить, что он ненавидит.“

Эрик Хоффер Цитаты о мужчинах

„Нигде более не найти такой всепоглощающей ненависти к своей стране у образованных людей, как в Америке.“

„Когда люди вольны поступать как угодно, они обычно подражают друг другу.“

Источник: http://www.situation.ru/app/j_art_516.htm

„Власть портит не так уж много людей, а недостатки портят многих.“

„«Люди слова» бывают разных типов: священники, писцы, пророки, писатели, художники, профессора, студенты, вообще интеллигенция. Там, где чтение и письмо – трудное искусство, например в Китае, простая грамотность уже дает право на звание «человека слова».
Так было и в Древнем Египте, где искусство иероглифов было монополией немногих.
Для «людей слова» всех родов характерна жажда всеобщего признания, которая определяет их отношение к существующему порядку.“

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Жить полной жизнью означает чувствовать, что нет ничего невозможного.“

чтение
Источник: Человек убежденный. Личность, власть и массовые движения

Эрик Хоффер Цитаты о жизни

„Низшие элементы народа могут оказывать заметное влияние на ход событий потому, что они абсолютно не ценят настоящего. Свои собственные жизни и всё настоящее они считают непоправимо испорченными, а потому и то и другое готовы разбазарить и разрушить до основания: отсюда их безрассудство и стремление к хаосу и анархии. Они ещё страстно стремятся растворить свои исковерканные и бессмысленные «я» в каком-то душеспасительном общественном спектакле - отсюда их склонность к объединенным действиям.“

„Неудовлетворённые встречаются на всех ступенях жизни, однако больше всего их в следующих категориях:“

«Истинноверующий: мысли о природе массовых движений»

„Для некоторых свобода — это право делать то, что хочется. Для большинства же — это право не делать то, чего не хочется.“

Эрик Хоффер цитаты

„Многие прозрения святого проистекают из его опыта как грешника.“

„Лучший стимул для бега вперед — иметь позади что-то такое, от чего приходится убегать.“

„Поиски счастья — основной источник несчастья.“

„Мы абсолютно уверены только в том, чего не понимаем.“

„Мы лжем громче, когда лжем себе.“

„Истинноверующий: мысли о природе массовых движений“

“It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.”

Эрик Хоффер: Цитаты на английском языке

“Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.”

Section 56
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Источник: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Контексте: It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
Контексте: The readiness for self-sacrifice is contingent on an imperviousness to the realities of life.... For self-sacrifice is an unreasonable act.... All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.... by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it.... To rely on the evidence of senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.”

“people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”

Section 89
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

Источник: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”

“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”

“Flaubert and Nietzsche have emphasized the importance of standing up and walking in the process of thinking. The peripatetics were perhaps motivated by the same awareness. Yet purposeful walking — what we call marching — is an enemy of thought and is used as a powerful instrument for the suppression of independent thought and the inculcation of unquestioned obedience.”

“As a full-time longshoreman I am necessarily more a scribbler than a writer. But I am also so by inclination. The writing I can enjoy is the sketching of an idea in a few dozen words — two hundred at most. Elaboration and expansion are for me hard going. An article of several thousand words becomes inevitably a mosaic of ideas — a series of ideas stuck together.”

Entry (1960)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance — of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.”

Entry (1962)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.”

Entry (1956)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“To think for oneself is not only, as Gide said, counterrevolutionary but also apostasy and, at certain times, treason.”

Section 6
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“Social stability is the product of an equilibrium between a vigorous majority and violent minorities. Disorder does not come from an increased inner pressure or from the interaction of explosive ingredients. There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.
It is hard to tell what causes the pervasive timidity. One thinks of video-induced stupor, intake of tranquilizers, fear of not living to enjoy the many new possessions and toys, the example of our betters in cities and on campuses who high-mindedly surrender to threats of violence and make cowardice fashionable.”

Entry (1953)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves — not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.”

Источник: First Things, Last Things (1971), Ch. 8 "Thoughts on the Present"

“The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.”

Entry (1956)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.”

Источник: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973) Section 53

“The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.”

Entry (1967)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 100
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

“Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 9
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements

“Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 29
The True Believer (1951), Part Two: The Potential Converts

“If in order to keep the wheels turning you have to deafen ears with propaganda, crack the whip of Terror, and keep pushing people around, then you haven't got a machine civilization no matter how numerous and ingenious your machines.”

Section 44
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

“The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.”

Источник: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 5: "The Readiness to Work"

“I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 94
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

“The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual's identification with a group.”

Источник: Before the Sabbath (1979), p. 79

“The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 45, Ch. 13 Factors Promoting Self-sacrifice
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

“It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.”

Section 113 http://books.google.com/books?id=msOwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+pleasure+we+derive+from+doing+favors+is+partly+in+the+feeling+it+gives+us+that+we+are+not+altogether+worthless%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

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

"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'", The New York Times Magazine (April 25, 1971), p. 50.

“The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything.”

Section 215
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

Section 231 http://books.google.com/books?id=msOwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+fear+of+becoming+a+has+been+keeps+some+people+from+becoming+anything%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

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

Section 140
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)