“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).
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §24 (edited excerpt).
“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §26 (excerpt).
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §26 (excerpt).
On 31 July 1954, Italian climbers Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest.