#into

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#despot #hater #human #human nature #into

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#difficulty #empty #forcing #head #hence

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#creativity #into #introduce #nature #order

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#idea #into #mediocrity #original #original idea

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#faith #find #his #intolerance #know

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dark #definitely #given #i #i do

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#break #escape #go #going #great

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#army #because #college #first #go