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Life Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
- When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
- We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need…
- We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
- For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in…
- The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
- However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human…
- The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human…
- Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards…
- The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises…
- 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…
- All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they…
- Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new…
- In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and…
- Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a…
- It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle