The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
Friedrich NietzscheThere are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Friedrich NietzscheMan is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.
Friedrich Nietzsche