IM Friedrich Nietzsche, August 25, 1900

[The Sanity Inspector]

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania
of grandeur.
-- Leo Tolstoy

There is no escaping Nietzsche. You may hold him a hissing and a
mocking and lift your virtuous skirts as you pass him by, but his roar
is in your ears and his blasphemies sink into your mind.
-- H. L. Mencken, _The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche_, 1908

--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam

[dougk]

> There is no escaping Nietzsche. You may hold him a hissing and a
> mocking and lift your virtuous skirts as you pass him by, but his roar
> is in your ears and his blasphemies sink into your mind.
> -- H. L. Mencken, _The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche_, 1908
>

Those who know they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to
seem profound strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot
see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is timid and dislikes
going into the water.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, _Die frohliche Wissenschaft_

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could
not hear the music.
--Friedrich Nietzsche