Beyond Good and Evil

“A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.”

“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.”