Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happiness and, being by essence empty, he is trying to fill his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches, is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down, to put oneself on a false scent or trail.

p. 56. - Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937)