When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.