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Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature,

Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.

Eric Hoffer
Art, Technology, Organization
"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Eric Hoffer
Moving, Technology, Skills
1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.

Eric Hoffer
Technology, Men, Medicine
"Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 60, 1973.

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

Eric Hoffer
Art, Frustration, Technology
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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