You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer on enemy
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. Eric Hoffer on prophet
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation. Dr. Albert Hofmann on spirituality
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. Josiah Holland on patience
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on advice
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on religion
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on age
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on doubt
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on mother
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on music
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on neighbor
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on science
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on truth
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on women
I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred. John H. Holmes on journalism
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. Homer on ability