The Devil Take My Good Taste, but the Rule Is More Interesting Than My Own

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach what is called honesty. The higher man must open his ears to all the coarser or finer cynicism, and congratulate himself when the clown becomes shameless right before him. When anyone speaks without bitterness of man as a belly with two requirements, and a head with one, whenever anyone sees, seeks, and wants to see, only hunger, sexual instinct, and vanity, then ought the lover of knowledge to harken attentively and diligently. 26. For the indignant man, and he who perpetually tears and lacerates himself with his own teeth, may indeed be morally speaking, and higher than the laughing and self-satisf