The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
Friedrich NietzscheGo through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
Friedrich NietzscheIt is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
Friedrich Nietzsche