This sort of conceit which un derstands how to belittle every truth and turn away from it back into ito;elf, and gloats over this its own private understanding which always knows how to dissipate every possible thought, and to find, instead of all the content, merely the barren ego this is a satisfaction which must be left to itself; for it flees the universal and seeks only an isolated existence on its own account Fiirsichseyn.