773. No cognitions are either injurious or hurtful, provided that everything is not set upon them, but some other end is intended. Cognitions are spiritual riches upon which the understanding of things can be established. It is the same as with riches or wealth, and power. If a man esteems them on account of the riches and power, he is then the worst in the other life; but if they are esteemed only for the sake of further ends, so that they are only means, and thus are regarded as of no account if they serve no end, they then injure no one. 1748, Feb. 14.