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Selves Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our…
- A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of…
- There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
- To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves…
More Selves Quotes
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves,… — Albert Einstein
- Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away… — Swami Vivekananda
- In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote… — Dirk Benedict
- Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz
- When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. — Dogen
- We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes