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Ourselves Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant…
- It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in…
- There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
- There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure…
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