“It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves — not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.”
Entry (1956)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
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American philosopher 1898–1983Related quotes
"A Matter of the Soul" (1975), pp. 75-76
It All Adds Up (1994)
Interview with Ted Kaczynski http://web.archive.org/web/20061003044754/www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk/profiles/ted.html
Interviews
Source: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Entry (1951)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
L’extrême plaisir que nous prenons à parler de nous-mêmes nous doit faire craindre de n’en donner guere à ceux qui nous écoutent.
Translation by E.H. Blackmore et. al., in Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, de La Rochefoucauld, Oxford University Press (2008) : ISBN 019162313X
Maxim 314
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 322.
“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 128)