"1900 - 1999" . . . . . . . . "Reflections on the human condition" . . "Reflections on the human condition"@en . . . "Quotations" . . . . . "Miscellanea" . . . . . . . . . . "This collection of aphorisms and philosophical comment represents Eric Hoffer at his best. It offers stunning insights that strike home with startling frequency, often most uncomfortably; it has a fine unity, a well-defined theme. That some of the statements invite argument and questioning is inevitable and stimulating. Here is a book of the \"wry epigram and the icy aphorism\" which made his earlier books so appealing and gained for him a wide audience.--Publisher description." .