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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-‘teleological activity.’ He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort  (Futile Efforts Quotes) As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.  (Futile Efforts Quotes) The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile  (Futile Efforts Quotes) No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul  (Futile Efforts Quotes)