Who is Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer (July 15, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that The Ordeal of Change (1963) was his finest work.Contents Early life Hoffer was born in 1902 in The Bronx, New York, to Knut and Elsa (Goebel) Hoffer. His parents were immigrants from Alsace, then part of Imperial Germany. By age...
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- It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
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- Skrill_dilly: quote of the day: "the hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - eric hoffer
- Dylanorepublic: eric hoffer was blind from the ages of seven to fifteen. when his sight returned, he read ferociously. he never went to university, but lived on skid row, dividing his time “between the books and the brothels.“ seventy years later, this book could have been written tomorrow.
- Quotes__bot: to be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. - eric hoffer
- Uri42154346: the leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. eric hoffer
- Akpebemorris: to learn, you need a certain degree of confidence. not too much, not too little if you have too much, you think you can't learn. if you have too much, you think you don't need to learn. - eric hoffer hear me, both are very dangerous
