Eric Hoffer

Quotes

• “If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.”

• “Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.”

• “There is not an idea that cannot be expressed in 200 words. But the writer must know precisely what he wants to say.”

• “God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not."”

• “We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”

Books by Eric Hoffer in order

Books by Eric Hoffer in the order they were published, from The True Believer (1951) to Truth Imagined (1983).

1. 1The True BelieverThe True Believer1951
2. 2The Passionate State of Mind, and Other AphorismsThe Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms1955
3. 3The Ordeal of ChangeThe Ordeal of Change1963
4. 4The Temper of Our Time [Essays]The Temper of Our Time [Essays]1967
5. 5Working and Thinking on the WaterfrontWorking and Thinking on the Waterfront1969
6. 6First Things, Last ThingsFirst Things, Last Things1971
7. 7Reflections on the Human ConditionReflections on the Human Condition1973
8. 8In Our TimeIn Our Time1976
9. 9Before the SabbathBefore the Sabbath1979
10. 10Between the Devil and the DragonBetween the Devil and the Dragon1982
11. 11Truth ImaginedTruth Imagined1983