The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile… - Friedrich Nietzsche

... all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...

Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman
hath one solution — it is called pregnancy.
Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the
child. But what is woman for man?
Two different things wanted the true man: danger and
diversion. Therefore wanted he woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Man shall be trained for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Too sweet fruits — these the warrior like not. Therefore like he woman; — bitter is even the sweetest woman.
Better than man doth woman understand children, but
man is more childish than woman.
In the true man there is a child hidden: it wanted to
play. Up then, ye women, and discover the child in man!

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.