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"Was sagt dein Gewissen? — 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'"

— Friedrich Nietzsche

January 1, 1970

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Aphorists 19th-century philosophers Composers from Germany Criticism of Christianity Existentialists

Original Language: English

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Common misattribution to the same effect: Become thyself! — It is noted that the phrase was first used by Pindar (Pyth. II, 73), and was merely creatively re-used by Nietzsche. He also later gave his Ecce Homo the subtitle: "How one becomes what one is." — Cf. also Hegel's formulation that "spirit ... makes itself that which it is."

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Common misattribution to the same effect: Become thyself! — It is noted that the phrase was first used by Pindar (Pyth. II, 73), and was merely creatively re-used by Nietzsche. He also later gave his Ecce Homo the subtitle: "How one becomes what one is." — Cf. also Hegel's formulation that "spirit ... makes itself that which it is."