Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffer quote No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
Eric Hoffer quote Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine.
Eric Hoffer quote Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer quote 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 plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
Eric Hoffer quote Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer quote It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties.
Eric Hoffer quote It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer quote Biography
American social philosopher and writer
