The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
Friedrich NietzscheMastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
Friedrich NietzscheCreation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.
Friedrich Nietzsche