The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

“There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.
It is always the same shape, only very numerous.
And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.”

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.