"I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the apes of their ideal" --Nietzsche

Thought of the last few days..

We do not really know who we are or who we could be; 'self-determination' is but a false slogan; all we can do is create relatively stable selves for ourselves. And even that too depends on the people we are around, the climate we are in, how we are dependent on others, how we let others see us and determine us, what we would like to project upon others, and what we take to be our joys and sorrows.
We are unknown to ourselves; we cannot fathom our own depths -- and who knows whether there is really anything to fathom at all...