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.
Friedrich NietzscheThe danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.
Friedrich NietzscheThose people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Friedrich NietzscheThere are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.
Friedrich Nietzsche