Ecce Homo (behold the men):
I cannot remember that I ever tried hard--no trace of struggle can be demonstrated in my life; I'm the opposite a heroic nature. "Willing" something, "striving" for something, envisaging a "purpose," a "wish"---I know non of this from experience. At this very moment I still look upon my future---an ample future!---as upon calm seas: there is no ripple of desire. I do not want in the least that anything should become different than it is. I myself do not want to become different.
But that is how I have always lived. I had no wishes. A man over 44 who can say that he never stove for honors, for women, for money!
All the problems of politics, of social organization, and of education have been falsified through and through because one mistook the most harmful men for great men---because one learned to despise "little" things, which means the basic concerns of life itself.
Life was easy for me---easiest when it made the hardest demands on me.
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