The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.
Eric HofferIn human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
Eric HofferHowever much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.
Eric Hoffer