The Ego And His Own - pg. 333

Without doubt culture has made me powerful. It has given me power over all motives, over the impulses of my nature as well as over the exactions and violences of the world. I know, and have gained the force for it by culture, that I need not let myself be coerced by any of my appetites, pleasures, emotions, etc.; I am their - master; in like mannes I become, through the sciences and arts, the master of the refractory world, whom sea and earth obey, and to whom even the stars must given account of themselves.