In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.(Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt)

He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself.