"L’homme poursuit deux buts: il recherche le bonheur et, étant vide par essence, il cherche à remplir sa vie; ce dernier motif joue un rôle plus considérable qu’on ne le pense d’ordinaire. Ce que l’on prend pour vanité, ambition, amour du pouvoir et des richesses, est souvent, en réalité, le besoin de masquer ce vide."
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Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty, he is trying to fill his life; the latter reason plays a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches, is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness. — p. 56.
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Afrikan Spir
1837 – 1890
Afrikan Spir (1837–1890) was a Russian Neo-Kantian philosopher of German descent.
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