Eric Hoffer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
—Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1955
Posted on December 18, 2002 at 8:27 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
—Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
Posted on May 28, 2002 at 4:51 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.
—Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
Posted on December 19, 2001 at 10:10 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
—Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
Posted on January 11, 2002 at 6:22 AM
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