“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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Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
"A Matter of the Soul" (1975), pp. 75-76
It All Adds Up (1994)
Theodore Kaczynski (1942) American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist
Interview with Ted Kaczynski http://web.archive.org/web/20061003044754/www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk/profiles/ted.html <br class="br">Interviews
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Entry (1951)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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)
Frederic Dan Huntington (1819–1904) American bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 322.
“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”
Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 128)