It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
Eric Hoffer Quotes
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites – opposite bends, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity – where energies flow smoothly in one direction – there will be much doing but no music.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
You cannot gage the intelligence of an American by talking with him.
One of the chief problems a modern society has to face is how to provide an outlet for the intellectual’s restless energies and yet deny him power. How to make and keep him a paper tiger.
To the intellectual, America’s unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way.
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
