“happiness, and we all know that we desire it; but we do not all at bottom pursue joy in the truth, so we do not all pursue God. We seek joy in honor or in power, in pleasure or in superstition, instead of in the things that will enable us to flourish.”
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
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