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Us Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down…
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is…
- The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- 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…
- There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
- Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
- It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
- We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
- The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not…
- To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers…
- 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…
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
- However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the…
- Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong