Logo
Quote by Eric Hoffer
The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pur

The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Art
Author
Eric Hoffer
Read Quote

The beginning of thought is in disagreement — not only with others but also with ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Dissent
Author
Eric Hoffer
Read Quote

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Society
Author
Eric Hoffer
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Necessity
category

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness. – Sir Terence Conran

Category:
Necessity

What one has to do usually can be done. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Category:
Necessity

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Necessity

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. – William Pitt

Category:
Necessity

Random Quotes

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. – Susie Bright

Category:
parenting

I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. – Mayim Bialik

Category:
parenting

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. – Edward R. Murrow

Category:
Technology

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them. – Terence Stamp

Category:
positive