Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. – Eric Hoffer
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer