The long and the short of it is this: that we are men is the slightest thing about us, and has significance only in so far as it is one of our qualities,183 our property.184 I am indeed among other things a man, as I am a living being, therefore an animal, or a European, a Berliner, and the like; but he who chose to have regard for me only as a man, or as a Berliner, would pay me a regard that would be very unimportant to me. And wherefore? Because he would have regard only for one of my qualities, not for me.
