Beyond Good and Evil

“"I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually the memory yields.”

“It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the "truth" one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”