One must guard oneself against attaining victory at the cost of the original reasons why one sought the victory. So too, should the person who contemplates the vast indifference and emptiness of the world beyond the human sphere, ensure that it doesn’t thereby make him indifferent and empty. We must gain the strength to stare past the edges of life, including its origin, its constraints, and its development, to gain self-knowledge and greater control over ourselves, without the abyss eroding away our humanity, our all-too human particularities that distinguish us from the abyss