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Nature 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.
- Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine,…
- The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape.
- It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral…
- Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human…
- Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
- Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to…
- The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that…
- The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
- Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
- The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn…
- Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
- Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
- Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is…
- Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.Eric Hoffer
- The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes
More Nature Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz