"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.

"Alone."

— Different. "Alone."

"Everyone's conscience, my friend, is different. That's why the fight is happening. Both are fighting, and both are conscientious!

"Still, there is only one truth.

"Is there only one conscience too?" "Well, let the conscience be different. Conscience may also be unobscured. But the truth is, of course, one.

"And who knows the truth?"

"At least you know the truth that you need to sleep if you actually go to bed.