No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.
Eric HofferWe need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
Eric HofferIt is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
Eric HofferMan's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
Eric HofferIt is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer