Eric Hoffer Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hater, Nature, Angel

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Men, Goal

• The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Ambition, Tilt

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, p. 104, 1967.

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Mistake, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Compassion, Punishment

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Men, Perfection

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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