"What does your conscience
say?"
"What does your conscience say?--'You shall become the person you are'" (219).
"We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves" (266).
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. Random House, 1974.
See also "To You," by Walt Whitman, and "The Prologue to Demian," by Hermann Hesse.