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Us Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness…
- However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
- Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
- Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty…
- In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
- There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from…
- We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that…
- The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that…
- A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood…
- Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
- Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.
- I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish,…
- The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into…
- We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But…
- It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes,…
- In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final…
- The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
- Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most…
- Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
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- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
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