All human activities are equivalent and equally doomed to failure in pursuit of being

Evidence

Just as Love finds its failure within itself and just as Desire arises from the death of Love in order to collapse in turn and give way to Love, so all the patterns of conduct toward the Other-as-object include within themselves an implicit and veiled reference to an Other-as-subject, and this reference is their death. Upon the death of a particular conduct toward the Other-as-object arises a new attitude which aims at getting hold of the Other-as-subject, and this in turn reveals its instabiliy and collapses to give way to the opposite conduct. Thus we are indefinitely referred from the Other-as-object to the Other-as-subject and vice versa. The movement is never arrested, and this movement with its abrupt reversals of direction constitutes our relation with the Other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1006 (#epitomizes, via linked claim)

Since it can only remain within itself, because of its metaphysical reality, it can find only unbounded illusion and ultimate disappointment in each apparent goal. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 845 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Every human project aims to become God, a goal that proves impossible — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1415; Human existence is simultaneously bounded in every direction and in none — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 786; Death cannot be an authentic human possibility because it negates all projects (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Death cannot be an authentic human possibility because it negates all projects #expands (0.80)
• Every attitude toward the Other fails and collapses into its opposite #epitomizes (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1006
• Life finds only illusory goals and ultimate disappointment when confined to itself #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 845
• Human existence is simultaneously bounded in every direction and in none #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 786