The Gay Science, Section 108

What Is Genius?- To Aspire To A Lofty Aim And To Will The Means To That Aim.

The Unlucky Hand Dealt To Clear And Precise Writers Is That People Assume They Are Superficial And So Do Not Go To Any Trouble Inreading Them: And The Lucky Hand Dealt To Unclear Ones Is That The Reader Does Go To Some Trouble And Then Attributes The Pleasure He Experiences In His Own Zeal To Them.

The Arrogance That Accompanies Merit Offends Us Even More Than The Arrogance Of People Who Are Lacking In Merit: Since Merit Itself Offends Us.

What, Then Is Truth?... Truths Are Illusions About Which One Has Forgotten That This Is What They Are.

Insanity In Individuals Is Something Rare - But In Groups, Parties, Nations And Epochs, It Is The Rule.