Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Tag: Quote of the Day
19AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
Eric Hoffer
18AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
17AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Joseph Conrad
16AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad
15AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
14AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
God is for men and religion for women.
Joseph Conrad
13AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.
Joseph Conrad
12AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad
11AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad