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Letter "E" » Eric Hoffer Quotes
«The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
central, facility, grandparent, grandparents, human society, implant, implanting, implants, The central
«It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites /opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity /where energies flow smoothly in one direction /there will be much doing but no music.»
«Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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and the like, eminently, plot, storyteller, storytellers, the like
«We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
human body, human mind, rape, raped, raping, reverence, rudiments, the human body
«The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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altogether, derive, favors, partly, pleasant, surprise, The Pleasure, worthless
«The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.»
«Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bunches, clique, conform, nonconformist, nonconformists, nonconformity, rule in, woe
«Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.»
«It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.»
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
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