You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Hoffer’s line is a compact critique of acquisitiveness: if the thing you are pursuing is not genuinely necessary for your well-being, it cannot deliver lasting satisfaction, no matter how much of it you accumulate. The “never get enough” points to the self-reinforcing nature of desire—wanting becomes a habit, and each new acquisition resets the baseline rather than fulfilling it. The quote also implies a distinction between needs (which can be met) and manufactured wants (which expand indefinitely), suggesting that happiness depends less on addition than on discernment: identifying what is truly needed and refusing to confuse consumption, status, or novelty with contentment.