| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42102 |
| QUOTATION: | What does your conscience say?—”You must become who it is that you are.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 519, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, “Third Book,” aphorism 270 (1882).
A recurrent theme in Nietzsche’s writings which derives from Pindar’s Pythian Odes (2.73) and supplies the subtitle of his own spiritual autobiography, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (prepared for publication 1888, published posthumously 1908). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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