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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
Idea
Mediocrity
Water
Wine
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Eric Hoffer
Action
Balance
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
Enemy
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer
Time
Luck
Man
Right
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
Eric Hoffer
Heresy
Spring
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer
Dissent
Majority
Minority
Will
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer
Compassion
Evil
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Eric Hoffer
Nation
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
Art
Living
Old
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer
Difficulty
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer
Animals
Machines
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer
Love
Man
Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer
Children
Paradise
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Thought
Beginning
A man by himself is in bad company.
Eric Hoffer
Company
Man