“ The self that the individual knows is at the same time the actual self and the ideal self, which the individual has outside him as an image in whose likeness he has to form himself, yet which he has, on the other hand, within him since he is that self. Only within himself does the individual have the goal he must strive for, though in striving for it he has that goal outside himself. ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation