Single Idea 4551

[catalogued under 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self]

Full Idea

Tremendous self-examination: becoming conscious of oneself, not as an individual but as mankind.

Gist of Idea

Great self-examination is to become conscious of oneself not as an individual, but as mankind

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §575)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.316


A Reaction

A lovely thought, which illustrates the fact that it is hard to be introspective without bringing an agenda to the process.