221 ordspråk av Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer föddes den July 25th 1902 och dog den 21 May 1983 - US writer
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 It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities |
| It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. |
| Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. |
| Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. |
| 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. |
| Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. |
| Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. |
| 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. |
| Man was nature's mistake -she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. |
| Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner |
| Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. |
| More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. |
| Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. |
| Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. |
| 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, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. |
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