I can't find my birth certificate.
I have operator's manuals for stuff I don't even remember and pay stubs from 1978, but no birth certificate.
I also found a scrap of paper, maybe 2 inches by 4, on which I'd copied the following:
Progress in morals is an illusion, there is no goal to which moral development inevitably tends; indeed there is a hidden root of insincerity and hypocrisy beneath all morality, for goodness and badness and all other moral states are in fact states of conflict between opposing impulses.
You'd think if I cared enough to write that out longhand and save it, I might have thought to include the source. I'm sure I didn't write it myself; I would have found more pretentious synonyms for goodness and badness.
I also found a scrap of paper, maybe 2 inches by 4, on which I'd copied the following:
Progress in morals is an illusion, there is no goal to which moral development inevitably tends; indeed there is a hidden root of insincerity and hypocrisy beneath all morality, for goodness and badness and all other moral states are in fact states of conflict between opposing impulses.
You'd think if I cared enough to write that out longhand and save it, I might have thought to include the source. I'm sure I didn't write it myself; I would have found more pretentious synonyms for goodness and badness.