The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
Friedrich NietzscheAgainst war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
Friedrich NietzscheWithout myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
Friedrich NietzscheAll that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche