With a look of pity I saw how utterly emaciated I was, how I had wasted away: realities were entirely lacking within my knowledge, and the ‘idealities’ were worth damn all!—I was gripped by a really burning thirst: from then on, indeed, I pursued nothing but physiology, medicine, and natural science—I returned even to truly historical studies only when my task compelled me imperiously to do so. That was also when I first guessed the connection between an activity chosen contrary to one’s instinct, a so-called ‘profession’, to which one is called last of all ,* and that need to have one’s
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