Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish h... -Eric Hoffer

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Eric Hoffer , Writer
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Eric Hoffer was a philosopher and writer, best known for his thought-provoking works on human nature, mass movements, and social psychology. His observations on society and the individual continue to be studied and appreciated.

Eric Hoffer Quotes to Explore

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings....
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate....
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation....
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time....
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from....
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something....
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle....
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn....
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature....

Nature Quotes to Explore

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....