188 Quotations by Eric Hoffer
- 61. Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

- 62. Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to ...

- 63. Man was nature's mistake -- she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her m ...

- 64. Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

- 65. Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to ...

- 66. More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers ...

- 67. Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu ...

- 68. Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

- 69. No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p ...

- 70. No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

- 71. Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And w ...

- 72. Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And w ...

- 73. One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...

- 74. Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen ...

- 75. Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o ...

- 76. Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The ...

- 77. Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.

- 78. Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing ...

- 79. Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

- 80. Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposel ...

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