In a famous passage inscribed in his diary at the end of his life he wrote: "I know that I shall die without intellectual heirs, and that is as it should be. My legacy will be like cash, distributed to many heirs, each transforming his part into use according to his nature—a use which will no longer reveal its indebtedness to this heritage."

XREF: May connect to broader philosophical transmission debates or other figures who knowingly left fragmented legacies.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 16