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Men who are uninterested in affairs other than their own personal ones, in matters other than their own work and pleasure, position and fortune, men who are preoccupied with the trivial round of external, selfish activities only, will naturally regard the study of philosophy as a waste of time, the practice of meditation as a form of indolence, and the endeavour after self-improvement as a needless trouble. No higher yearnings enter their hearts, no reverent feelings touch them.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 2 : Its Choice > # 405