Quote by Eric Hoffer
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause,

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. – Eric Hoffer

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

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It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying

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The universe is made of stories, not atoms. – Muriel Rukeyser

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