“There is hardly a single instance of cultural vigor marked by moderation in expression.”

— Eric Hoffer

Entry (1954)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: It is the Frenchman's readiness to exaggerate that is at the root of his intellectual lucidity and also of his capacity for acknowledging merit. The English were not afraid to exaggerate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and they were then not far behind the French in the lucidity of their thinking.... There is hardly a single instance of cultural vigor marked by moderation in expression.

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American philosopher 1898–1983

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