Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into >>

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns f >>

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion eve >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be >>

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. >>

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some >>

To grow old is to grow common. 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.

Hoffer, Eric