taking down the decorations

Nietzsche concludes by demanding that we strive to "know thyself"

One "must organize the chaos within himself by reflecting on his genuine needs (like the Greeks). His honesty, his sound and truthful character must at some time rebel against secondhand thought, secondhand learning and imitation; then he will begin to comprehend that culture can be something other still than decoration of life, that is, fundamentally always only dissimulation and disguise; for all adornment hides what it adorns." (p64)