We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.
Friedrich NietzscheIn a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
Friedrich NietzscheIn the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs
Friedrich NietzscheHow much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.
Friedrich Nietzsche