Error (the belief in the ideal) is not blindness; error is cowardice....Every conquest, every step forward in knowledge, is the outcome of courage, of hardness towards one's self, of cleanliness towards one's self. I do not refute ideals; all I do is draw on my gloves in their presence....Nitimur in vetitum; with this device my philosophy will one day be victorious; for that which has hitherto been most stringently forbidden is, without exception, Truth.


He divines remedies for injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; that which does not kill him makes hims stronger. He instinctively gathers his material from all he sees, hears, and experiences. He is a selective principle; he rejects much. he is always in his own company, whether his intercourse be with books with humans, or with natural scenery; he honors the things he chooses, the things he scknowledges, the things he trusts. He reacts slowly to all kinds of stimuli, with that tardiness which long caution and deliberate pride have bred in him - he tests the approaching stimulus; he would not dream of meeting it half way. he believes neither in "ill-luck" nor "guilt; he can digest himself and others; he knows how to forget - he is strong enough to turn everything to his own advantage.
-Nietzsche