Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there >>

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that >>

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an >>

Quotations about Novelty

To the old, the new is usually bad news. >>

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a >>

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the min >>

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Hoffer, Eric