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Chiefs Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
- To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful…
- The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human…
- One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never…
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
- The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Herman Boerhaave
- Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell
- Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson
- The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison