"What," Emerson asks, "is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself."
-from The American Scholar
"His own culture -- the unfolding of his nature, is the chief end of man."
(and by that he means self-development, education, Bildung.)
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