\u201cSuch fervor for the truth! Forgive me, Professor Nietzsche, if I sound challenging, but we agreed to speak truthfully. You speak about the truth in a holy tone, as though to substitute one religion for another. Allow me to play devil\u2019s advocate. Allow me to ask: Why such passion, such reverence, for the truth? How will it profit my patient of this morning?\u201d \u201cIt is not the truth that is holy, but the search for one\u2019s own truth! Can there be a more sacred act than self-inquiry? My philosophical work, some say, is built on sand: my views shift continually. But one of my granite sentences is: \u2018Become who you are.\u2019 And how can one discover who and what one is without the truth?\u201d \u201cBut the truth is that my patient has only a short time to live. Shall I offer him that self-knowledge?\u201d \u201cTrue choice, full choice,\u201d Nietzsche responded, \u201ccan blossom only in the sunshine of truth. How can it be otherwise?\u201d Realizing that Nietzsche could discourse persuasively\u2014and interminably\u2014in this abstract realm of truth and choice, Breuer saw he had to force him to speak more concretely. \u201cAnd my patient this morning? What is his range of choices? Perhaps trust in God is his choice!\u201d \u201cThat is not a choice for man. It is not a human choice, but a grasp for an illusion outside oneself. Such a choice, a choice for the other, for the supernatural, is always enfeebling. It always makes man less than he is.<\/p>\n
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