747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.

t sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Unpredictability too can become monotonous.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way.

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.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we hav

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future, but an excuse can last for life.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

The necessary has never been man s top priority.The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness.