“Kant wanted to prove, in a way that would dumfound the common man, that the common man was right: that was the secret joke of his soul. He wrote against the scholars in support of popular prejudice, but for scholars and not for the people.”

—The Gay Science, §193.

Léonard Misonne. Sur la Porte. Belgium. 1907

Roberto Ferri’s art (details).

A lone man listens to a band play in Hyde Park [1935]

“One hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers.”

—The Gay Science, §196.

Subway hands and funeral flowers

Antony Gormley

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

― Eugenio Montale

Ian Botham, Headingley, 21st July 1981

“Laughter means being schadenfreude, but with good conscience.”

—The Gay Science, §200.

"Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say at night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall."