Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happiness… - African Spir

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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.

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Afrikan Spir (1837–1890) was a Russian Neo-Kantian philosopher of German descent.

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Alternative Names: Afrikan Aleksandrovich Spir • Afrikan Spir • Afrikan Alexandrovich Spir

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Reinhold Niebuhr Bertrand Russell John Stuart Mill William Godwin Arthur Schopenhauer

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