I am the lightbringer. I wish to cast a ray upon the heap called “man” to show his misery to himself and inspire him to rise from his wretched condition. You! Yes—you there! What have you done to overcome yourself? Do you not know that man is a bridge, and not an end? Or is your fate to face a life full of fear and torment? Verily, I have seen many who live as if in flight from themselves, who go about from task to task as if to distract themselves from the reality that is to hand right before them… Ah, were it not so! I would have man look himself in the face—and RESPECT himself! Ah, how many men have I seen who love themselves so dearly—and who hold themselves in contempt precisely on that account! Were it so easy to take one’s own hand, and to lead one’s own “self” to oneself!