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Worthlessness 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…
- Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of…
- It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than…
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- Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where… — Iris Murdoch
- She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and… — W. Somerset Maugham
- If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there… — Vladimir Lenin
- To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the… — Eric Hoffer
- Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus… — Eric Hoffer
- Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright… — Mercedes Lackey
- The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading… — Jules Henry