The issue was, strangely enough, the value of the "un-egoistic" instincts, the instincts of pity, self-denial, and self-sacrifice which Schopenhauer had so persistently painted in golden colours, deified and etherealised, that eventually they appeared to him, as it were, high and dry, as "intrinsic values in themselves," on the strength of which he uttered both to Life and to himself his own negation.
Errukia, buruukapen-, buruopalkuntza-instintu "ez-egoista"ren balioaz zen bereziki auzia, zeinek hain zuzen ere Schopenhauerrek urreztatu, jainkotu eta haraindikotu baitzituen hainbeste denboran, harik eta "beren baitako balio" gisa gelditu zitzaizkion arte, eta haietan oinarrituz ezetz esan zien bizitzari eta bere buruari ere.