— Well, to live, despite all the conditions and circumstances of life. "'Despite' - I don't want to. I only want to "see".

"A self-seeker, they say?" "A free man, not a slave. That's what they say.

"But what kind of freedom is it if you don't want to do anything, don't want to act, don't recognize practice? Well, do you recognize any benefit? Do you want people to benefit or not? Finally, do you want to benefit yourself or not?

"Do you know what benefit is?"

"Everyone knows what good is. "I don't know.

"You're lying. You know.

"I don't know.

"What do you want, don't you know?" "I don't know.

"What do you need to eat and drink, don't you know?"

"I don't know. "And why do you eat and drink?"

"And how do I know why I eat and drink?" "You're hungry and thirsty, aren't you?"

"You never know. Sometimes I want to punch me in the face. But I don't give it.

"You don't punch me in the face, but you eat bread, don't you?"

"Well, what's so touching about it?" "And the fact that it is useful for you and you know about this benefit and eat according to this knowledge.

"Lies! The worm does not know a damn thing, but sucks water with its whole body. "It means that it is useful for him, and the benefit is the cause of his action.

"Lies! A butterfly flies to the fire – is it also useful for it? "It's nice for her. Pleasantness, pleasure, can also be a principle of action, although, in my opinion, this is a bad principle.

"How many principles of operation do you have?" "It's not a matter of the number of principles of action, it's a matter of acting at all.

"That's what you didn't prove." You are always pointing out blind facts: you are eating, they say, drinking, or living, and not dying. Well, well! All these are blind facts. So it really is. But why it exists, why it is so and not otherwise, and why I should act in this way and not otherwise, and in general why I should act and not give a damn about everything, you have not proved anything to me.

"Don't give a damn about everything—that's action, too!" "I'm not saying I didn't care. I am only saying that no one has any right to force me to act or spit on me.

"Do you have a conscience or not?" Doesn't your conscience compel you to act?

"Everyone's conscience is different.