"...man everywhere and at all times, whoever he might be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least of his reason and advantage dictated. And he might choose what is contrary to one's own interests, and sometimes one positively ought (that is my idea). One's free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it might be, one's own fancy worked up at all times to frenzy -- is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants... a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever the independence might cost and wherever it might lead. And choice, of course, the devil knows what choice."