Quote by Eric Hoffer
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer

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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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Obscurity
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. – Eric Hoffer

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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. – Thomas Carlyle

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Only the mediocre are always at their best. – Jean Giraudoux

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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. – Max Beerbohm

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Mediocrity

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. – Joseph Heller

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