“Those who know they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.”
— The Gay Science, §173 (excerpt).
— The Gay Science, §173 (excerpt).
“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.”
—The Gay Science, §231.
—The Gay Science, §231.
“I do not love people who have to explode like bombs in order to have any effect at all. When one is near them one is always in danger of suddenly losing one’s hearing, if not more than that.”
—The Gay Science, §218.
—The Gay Science, §218.