When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.Eric Hoffer
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
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The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.
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The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
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