Quote by Eric Hoffer
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

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Example
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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. – Eric Hoffer

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Evolution
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. – Eric Hoffer

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Men
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Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Creative minds are rarely tidy. – John William Gardner, “Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society,”

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Mind

I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Mind

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Mind

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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. – Don Marquis

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Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded. – Schuyler Fisk

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. – Francis Bacon

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