>>3764835There is only one inborn error, and that is: that we exist in order to be happy.
It is inborn in us because it is one with our existence itself, and our whole being is only a paraphrase of it, nay, our body is its monogram.
We are nothing more than will to live, and the successive satisfaction of all our volitions is what we think of in the conception of happiness.
As long as we persist in this inborn error, indeed, even if we become rigidly fixed in it through optimistic dogmas, then the world appears to us full of contradictions.
For at every step, in great things as in small, we must experience that the world and life are by no means arranged with a view to containing a happy existence.
