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Mind Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
- The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not…
- The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a…
- When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is…
- Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together…
- There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor…
- The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and…
- The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
- We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
- I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
- What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- But I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Why can't I just tell you how I feel? That you're constantly on my mind...that I'm crazy about you. Maybe it's because… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale