The Noble Aim Is the Bread That People Cannot Live With Outright

Human beings are weird creatures. We're much more activated by having an aim and moving towards it than we are by attainment. The nobler the aim, that's one way of thinking about it, the better your life. Without a noble aim, how can you withstand any of that? You become desperate. And once you become desperate, things go things go from bad to worse very rapidly when you become desperate. It seems to me tied in with what i just mentioned. It's like you destabilize yourself, and things become chaotic. That's not good. If you don't have a noble aim, then you have nothing but but shallow, trivial pleasures. And they don't sustain you...