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From Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
- Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where…
- 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…
- Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is…
- The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not…
- To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers…
- The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
- To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
- There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and…
- Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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