It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

— Eric Hoffer

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

— Eric Hoffer

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

— Eric Hoffer

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

— Eric Hoffer

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

— Eric Hoffer

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

— Eric Hoffer

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.

— Eric Hoffer

It 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 millennia.

— Eric Hoffer

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

It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

— Eric Hoffer