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Inspirational Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
- Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
- There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
- Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
- Facts are counterrevolutionary.
- When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
- However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
- There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
- We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
- A man by himself is in bad company.
- Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
- A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
- Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,
- Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
- When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people…
- The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
- A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
- We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
- What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
- The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
- Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.
- The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento