Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich NietzscheFrom passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
Friedrich NietzscheThe same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.
Friedrich Nietzsche