Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
Eric HofferFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric HofferAction is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Eric HofferTo grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffer