Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not after… - Friedrich Nietzsche

"One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perhaps he did not want to be understood by "anyone”. A distinguished intellect and taste, when it wants to communicate its thoughts, always selects its hearers; by selecting them, it at the same time closes its barriers against "the others". It is there that all the more refined laws of style have their origin: they at the same time keep off, they create distance, they prevent "access" (intelligibility, as we have said,) while they open the ears of those who are acoustically related to them.

أما هناك ف، في الأسفل - الكل يتكلم هناك ، ولا شيء يُسمع .
وحتى لو أعلن المرء عن حكمته قرعاً بالأجراس ، فإن بقالي السوق سيغطون على صوته برنين القروش .

The Way to Happiness. — A sage asked of a fool the way to happiness. The fool answered without delay, like one who had been asked the way to the next town: "Admire yourself, and live on the street!" "Hold," cried the sage, "you require too much; it suffices to admire oneself!" The fool replied: "But how can one constantly admire without constantly despising?"