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Inner Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in…
- It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
- Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine,…
- That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
- The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than…
- Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The…
- It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
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- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is… — Eric Hoffer
- If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause… — Barack Obama
- The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense… — Seamus Heaney
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler