Eric Hoffer Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Compassion, Soul, Impulse

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Compassion, Evil, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Ignorance, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Compassion, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

• It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Compassion, Justice

  Eric Hoffer, "The Passionate Sate of Mind and Other Aphorisms" (1955), section 140

• Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Compassion, Punishment

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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