one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I would prefer to be a satyr rather than a saint.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.
Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

The one necessary thing. — A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.