Every external interest inspires some activity which, so long as the interest remains alive, is a complete preventive of ennui. Interest in oneself, on the contrary, leads to no activity of a progressive kind. It may lead to the keeping of a diary, to getting psycho-analysed, or perhaps to becoming a monk.
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The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which ‘external’ things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies…. They tell us nothing about entities in their Being.