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«When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«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 leap forward but a groping toward survival.»
«Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.»
«When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.»
«Youth itself is a talent / a perishable talent.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«A man by himself is in bad company.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action /the ability to pass directly from thought to action.»
«To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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all powerful, arbitrariness, enormously, excessively, obeys
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