Эрик Хоффер цитаты страница 6

„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“

“When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster.”

Эрик Хоффер: Цитаты на английском языке

“Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

The True Believer (1951), Part Four: Beginning and End

“The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.”

Section 78
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (1954), p. 75”

Источник: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973), p. 20

“What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.”

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

“I have never felt that I had a thought too profound for others to understand. On the contrary, it always seemed to me axiomatic that what was clear to me should be clear and easy to everyone else. This despite the fact that it often took me years to grope my way to an idea…. I can spend days and even months on a single sentence. I do not know how to skip. To think and write with me is like putting brick on brick.”

Entry (1951)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.”

Entry (1959)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.”

Entry (1954)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader.”

As quoted in Dictionary of Quotable Definitions (1970) by Eugene Brussell

“Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.”

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

“To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats — we know it not.”

Section 26
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

“You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others — that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.”

Section 59
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.”

Journal entry (30 October 1958, 6:30 am)
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront (1969)

“We tend today to exaggerate the effectiveness of persuasion as a means of inculcating opinion and shaping behavior. …Actually the fabulous effects ascribed to propaganda have no greater foundation in fact than the fall of the walls of Jericho ascribed to the blast of Joshua's trumpets.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 54
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

“The most incurably frustrated—and, therefore, the most vehement—among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled craving for creative work. Both those who try to write, paint, compose, etcetera, and fail decisively, and those who after tasting the elation of creativeness feel a drying up of the creative flow within and know that never again will they produce aught worthwhile, are alike in the grip of a desperate passion. Neither fame nor power nor riches nor even monumental achievements in other fields can still their hunger. Even the wholehearted dedication to a holy cause does not always cure them. Their unappeased hunger persists, and they are likely to become the most violent extremists in the service of their holy cause.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 83
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

“The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 37, Ch.6 Misfits
The True Believer (1951), Part Two: The Potential Converts

“Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.”

Before the Sabbath (1979)

“The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time — not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.”

Section 36
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

“The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than of deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.”

Entry (1952)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing — as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.”

Section 13
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.”

Entry (1950)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.”

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

“For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.”

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

“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Preface
The True Believer (1951)

“God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not."”

Eric Hoffer книга The True Believer

Section 65, Ch.14 Unifying Agents
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

“To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.”

Section 54
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.”

Section 220
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.”

"Money" p. 37
In Our Time (1976)

“Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.”

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

“The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.”

Section 225
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)