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Who Are We Really?

 

Friedrich Nietzsche seems to think that we never really try to find out who we are, in more ways than one.  He says, straight up, "We've never tried to find out who we are."  Many people all around the world don't want to believe this because they trust that they have found themselves.  Some of them have, but some have not.

 

People spend their entire lives trying to find their purpose in life, asking God "What did you put me here for?"  Some think that God has answered their questions.  Others, like Nietzsche, find themselves all on their own.  They sit silently until they build their own world that only they know about.  Nietzsche says, "until at last I had my own country, my own soil, a totally secluded, flowering, blooming world, like a secret garden, of which no one had the slightest inkling."  His whole prologue of "Genealogy of Morals" is about how we don't know ourselves because we subconsciously choose not to. 

 

 

Nietzsche created his own little world that only he knew about because he knew himself.  He found who he really was.  He died, not wondering who he was, but knowing who he was.

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