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Doe Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot…
- A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
- 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…
- A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and…
- Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.
- The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless…
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
- What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far…
- Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
- Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who…
- There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have…
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood