Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own though… - Karl Jaspers

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

The individual who can help himself is precisely the one who wills that authority exist in the world.

Crucial for man is his attitude toward failure: whether it remains hidden from him and overwhelms him only objectively at the end or whether he perceives it unobscured as the constant limit of his existence; whether he snatches at fantastic solutions and consolations or faces it honestly, in silence before the unfathomable. The way in which man approaches his failure determines what he will become.