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Best Man Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,…
- Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he…
- Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
- When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
- The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
- Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
- It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
- It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding…
- Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
- A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
- Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
- Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm…
- The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- 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…
- To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,…
- There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and…
- Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
- The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
- There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and…
- The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation,…
- Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
- Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle