“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.Eric Hoffer — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Nature of the Desire for Change: There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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 Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
