One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere
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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
It is said that the first storyteller crept at night to listen to the gods talking in their sleep — so each tale collected contained the breath of gods. – Author unknown
Times of stress and difficulty are not the times when men who are on the same side can afford to think overmuch about the extent of their differences. It is more profitable to think of points of agreement. – John Henry Joshua Ellison (1855–1944), c.1907
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
