Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career 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. The Eric Hoffer Book Award is an international literary prize established in his honor. The University of California, Berkeley awards an annual literary prize named jointly for Hoffer.

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"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

Sports
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"The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."

Art
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"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

Loneliness
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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."

Wisdom
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