Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make t >>

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other liv >>

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

Quotations about Necessity

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessi >>

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. >>

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. >>

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. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Hoffer, Eric