Noses Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Noses People Philosopher Philosophy Purpose Shows
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time. — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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