"The ‘unfree will’ is mythology; in real life it is only a matter of strong and weak wills. …In general, the 'unfreedom of the will’ is regarded as a problem from two entirely opposite standpoints, but always in a profoundly personal manner: some will not give their 'responsibility’, their belief in themselves, the personal right to their merits at any price (the vain races belong to this class). Others, on the contrary, do not wish to be answerable for anything, or blamed for anything, and owing to an inward self-contempt, seek to lay the blame for themselves somewhere else."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On the Prejudices of Philosophers’ 9 in Beyond Good and Evil, p. 29.
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