

We have never sought ourselves-how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are. We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason.

Recommended translation: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, trans.

Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift, 1887.
