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

About Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) 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...

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Children are the keys of paradise.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Discontent is at the root of the creative process: the most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way.

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More quotations tagged with “ambition”

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

—Edgar Bergen

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

—American Proverb

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

—Edward Young

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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