Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

American writer

Lived from: 1902 - 1983

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 july 1902 Died: 21 may 1983

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  • 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.
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  • Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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  • Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
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  • Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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  • Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
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  • Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
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  • 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.
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  • Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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  • Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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  • Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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  • Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
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  • 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.
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  • One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
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  • Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of
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  • Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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  • Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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  • Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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  • Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
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  • Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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  • People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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