It is in no way possible to address all the ideas In this little book that you can seriously open to just about any pageĪnd find a sentence that will stop you in your tracks and make you ponder Influence of his ideas, must be admitted to be a brilliant philosopherīut interestingly enough, Eric Hoffer, a self educated field hand and longshoreman, Rule is Friederich Nietzsche, who, whatever we may think of the destructive The required combination of brevity and profundity isĮxceptionally hard to maintain, in fact most authors only toss off a few There may be no harder form for an author to attempt than writing inĪphorisms. Editor's Preface to the Time-Life Books edition of The True Believer Who begins as a frustrated man driven by guilt,įailure and self-disgust to bury his own identity in a In Hoffer's book, this hero, nourishedīy free societies, is set off against 'the true believer,' Man at peace with himself, engaged in the The literary shock could hardly have been greater.įor Hoffer's hero is 'the autonomous man,' the content A genuine one emergedĪt last-with a philosophical cast very differentįrom what a proletarian was supposed to think. In 1951, when Believer first appeared, eagerĮyes had long been peeled for the emergence of a
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