“Human is what he decides to be.”

Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 7)

Harriet Taylor Mill, The Enfranchisement of Women (1851)

Source: Hope Against Hope

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 252

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Penguin Books 2015 edition, page 253.
No Place to Hide (2014)

Ch 10
The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (1875)
Context: Thus King Dolor's reign passed, year after year, long and prosperous. Whether he was happy — "as happy as a king" — is a question no human being can decide. But I think he was, because he had the power of making everybody about him happy, and did it too; also because he was his godmother's godson, and could shut himself up with her whenever he liked, in that quiet little room in view of the Beautiful Mountains, which nobody else ever saw or cared to see. They were too far off, and the city lay so low. But there they were, all the time. No change ever came to them; and I think, at any day throughout his long reign, the King would sooner have lost his crown than have lost sight of the Beautiful Mountains.