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Eric Hoffer föddes den 25 juli 1902 och dog den 21 mai 1983 - US writer
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Kreativitet

Children are the keys of paradise.

Barn

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Medlidenhet

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites /opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity /where energies flow smoothly in one direction /there will be much doing but no music.

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.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Mind

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

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 an old man is interesting to nobody.

Misery

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

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