Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
Friedrich NietzscheFreedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
Friedrich NietzscheI do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich NietzscheTHE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?
Friedrich Nietzsche