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
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer