Bardhyl’s Reviews > The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms > Status Update

Paragraphs and quotations of penetrating observations about human nature. As usual, Hoffer singles out self-dissatisfaction and self-alienation as the driving forces of passion, radicalism, religious zeal or dishonesty with oneself (“we lie loudest when we lie to ourselves”). Four stars to account for the (deliberate) exaggeration.