American - Writer | July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Eric Hoffer
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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A man by himself is in bad company.
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