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I look around at my neighbours and I see that they are covered with chains, the chains of slavery to their lower nature, but they seem to enjoy their handicaps. Aspiration is not a thing that agitates them, not a mood which they entertain. Their sight is limited to their immediate needs and their immediate family. What they are here for, where they are going is no concern of theirs; yet I believe that, living by this beautiful lake and the stupendous Alps, sometimes a blurred vision of a greater moment may flash past them.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Truth > # 157