The issue for me was the value of morality, and on that subject I had to place myself in a state of abstraction, in which I was almost alone with my great teacher Schopenhauer, to whom that book, with all its passion and inherent contradiction (for that book also was a polemic), turned for present help as though he were still alive.
Niri axola zitzaidana moralaren balioa zen,-eta puntu horretan nik aurre egin beharreko ia bakarra Schopenhauer neure maisu handia zen, zeini zuzentzen baitzaio, presente balego bezala, liburu hura, liburu haren grina eta kontraesan ezkutukoa (zeren hura ere "idatzi polemikoa" baitzen).