Full Idea
To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is.
Gist of Idea
To become what you are you must have no self-awareness
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Ecce Homo [1889], II.9), quoted by Brian Leiter - Nietzsche On Morality 3 'fatalism'
Book Reference
Leiter,Brian: 'Nietzsche On Morality (2nd Edn)' [Routledge 2015], p.68
A Reaction
[Don't understand 'II.9'] Enigmatic but striking. As I understand it, Nietzsche thought that knowing what you are is virtually impossible, though he spent a lifetime studying himself. Would you recognise someone who had become what they are?