But on the other hand since he is unable to help himself completely by this means, he also seeks to rid himself of any respect that has been forced from him for anything outside of himself and thereby to rid himself of the contempt for himself that this produces; he attempts to do this by persuading himself that his respect is merely folly and fanatical enthusiasm, that nothing whatsoever is worthy of respect, is noble and sublime, that everything is only semblance and illusion, that no human being is any better than he himself and neither is human nature as such.