"We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not."

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Eric Hoffer

#Sometimes Quotes

“It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.”
“Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.”
“There are a variety of reasons. Not all Western leaders are equal. We have to make a certain separation from naÃ¯ve Americans and Europeans. These are two different categories. For the Europeans, it affects the image of the "New Europe." The false image of Europe is that it is peaceful, separate from the past. Now the image of the New Europe is a radically false image.”
“I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.”
“Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.”
“You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.”
“Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.”
“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press

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