This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long… — 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
