4 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Survival

Eric Hoffer quotes on survival

15. The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

103. Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

126. This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

224. When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.