"Whoever despises himself respects himself as one who despises." Friedrich Nietzsche
Narcissist
I never saw it that way. The way I saw it was that there are many people who have an exceedingly low opinion of themselves, some who might even consider suicide . . . . . this is a juxtaposition of thought process . . . a means of escape from that mentality, but even more so an exposure of a device, or method you might say, for one to reach beyond the self-destructive behaviour . . . . it is psychological in nature. In the same context, he at one time said "The Sage as an astronomer: If you still see the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge." It may not be obvious what he means, and I will not explain it . . . . I will let you stew over it, if you do not understand it outright . . . . and when you do, that light will ignite . . .