Reid Hoffman

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money’s sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress’d as those that are full of precious Drugs. They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.