„The desire for ‚freedom of will‘ in the superlative, metaphysical sense, such as still holds sway, unfortunately, in the minds of the half-educated, the desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions oneself, and to absolve God, the world, ancestors, chance, and society therefrom, involves nothing less than to be precisely this causa sui, and, with more than Munchausen daring, to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the slough of nothingness.“
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886, 21, translation: H. Zimmern, December 7, 2009
He believes that the desire to absolve external factors from responsibility for one’s actions involves the impossible task of being the cause of oneself, or „causa sui“.
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