XI "The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature. "Man is in love with the bonds of birth; therefore he is caught in the companion bonds of death. In these chains he aspires after freedom of his being and mastery of his self-fulfilment. "Man is in love with power; therefore he is subjected to weakness. For the world is a sea of waves of force that meet and continually fling themselves on each other; he who would ride on the crest of one wave, must faint under the shock of hundreds. "Man is in love with pleasure; therefore he must undergo the yoke of gri