"Man staggers through life yapped at by his……" — Eric Hoffer
"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 what he craves most is self-forgetting."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
— Lord Byron
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working…
— Kim Cattrall
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times,…
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