Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all — why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end? The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)
I do not presuppose myself, because I am every moment just positing or creating myself, and am I only by being not presupposed but posited, and ... only in the moment when I posit myself; that is, I am creator and creature in one. The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)