Some more pretentious quotes

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   18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge
 increaseth sorrow.
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+
+* Søren Kierkegaard
+
+** Either/Or I
+
+<quote>
+A feature in which our age certainly excels that age in Greece is that
+our age is more depressed and therefore deeper in despair. Thus, our
+age is sufficiently depressed to know that there is something called
+responsibility and that this means something. Therefore, although
+everyone wants to rule, no one wants to have responsibility. It is
+still fresh in our memory that a French statesman, when offered a
+portfolio the second time, declared that he would accept it but on the
+condition that the secretary of state be made responsible. It is well
+known that the king in France is not responsible, but the prime
+minister is; the prime minister does not wish to be responsible but
+wants to be prime minister provided that the secretary of state will
+be responsible; ultimately it ends, of course, with the watchmen or
+street commissioners becoming responsible. Would not this inverted
+story of responsibility be an appropriate subject for Aristophanes! On
+the other hand, why are the government and the governors so afraid of
+assuming responsibility, unless it is because they fear an opposition
+party that in turn continually pushes away responsibility on a similar
+scale. When one imagines these two powers face to face with each other
+but unable to catch hold of each other because the one is always
+disappearing and is replaced by the other--such a situation would
+certainly not be without comic power.
+</quote>
+
+* Nietzsche
+
+** Beyond Good and Evil
+
+**30.** Our highest insights must---and should---sound
+like follies and sometimes like crimes when they are heard without
+permission by those who are not predisposed and predestined for
+them. The difference between the exoteric and the esoteric, formerly
+known to philosophers---among the Indians as among the Greek,
+Persians, and Muslims, in short, wherever one believed in an order of
+rank and *not* in equality and equal rights---does not so much
+consists in this, that the exoteric approach comes from the outside
+and sees, estimates, measures, and judges from the outside, not the
+inside; what is much more essential is that the exoteric approach sees
+things from below, the esoteric looks *down from above*. There
+are heights of the soul from which even tragedy ceases to look tragic;
+and rolling together all the woe of the world---who could dare to
+decide whether its sight would *necessarily* seduce us and
+compel us to feel pity and thus double this woe?
+
+What serves the higher type of men as nourishment or delectation must
+almost be poison for a very different and inferior type. The virtues
+of the common man might perhaps signify vices and weaknesses in a
+philosopher. It could be possible that a man of a high type, when
+degenerating and perishing, might only at that point acquire qualities
+that would require those in the lower sphere into which he had sunk to
+begin to venerate him like a saint. There are books that have opposite
+values for soul and health, depending on whether the lower soul, the
+lower vitality, or the higher and more vigorous ones turn to them: in
+the former case, these books are dangerous and lead to crumbling and
+disintegration; in the latter, heralds' cries that call the bravest to
+*their* courage. Books for all the world are always
+foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. Where
+the people eat and drink, even where they venerate, it usually
+stinks. One should not go to church if one wants to breathe
+*pure* air.
+