It's not the pessimists who write well, but the disappointed

“The noble charm of the Platonic way of thinking consisted precisely in its resistance to obvious sense-evidence.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §14 (edited excerpt).

If you like
I'll be furious flesh elemental,
or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses
if you like - I'll be extraordinary gentle,
not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

Bill Evans

“We really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §16 (excerpt).

Ornate axe, Italy, circa 1500

“A true fox calls sour not only those grapes he is unable to reach but also those he has reached and deprived others of.”

—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §244.

“Even if language will not get over its awkwardness and continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees of gradation, we will understand it and laugh at the way in which science seeks most to keep us in this simplified, thoroughly artificial, suitably constructed and suitably falsified world.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §24 (edited excerpt).