Full Idea
Only that which has no history is definable.
Gist of Idea
Only that which has no history is definable
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], II.§13)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.80
A Reaction
Too subtle to evaluate! It sounds as if it could be right, that some things are definable, but when the accretions of human history are interwoven into an identity, we can forget it.