Consolation for a close friend.

To avoid despair over being forced to deal with others' mediocre work:


"The cyclopses of culture. - Anyone who sees those furrowed hollows where glaciers have lain finds it scarcely possible that a time will come when a valley of meadows, forests, and streams will occupy that same place.  So it is in the history of humanity as well; the fiercest forces break the way, destructively at first, but nevertheless their activity was neccesary so that a milder cultural dispensation could later establish itself there.  The fearsome energies - what we term evil - are the cyclopean architects and road builders of humanity."  (Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human, 246)


And so, perhaps the crude work of others is necessary to help you find your subtler approach, as it defines itself against the coarse and unrefined.

The age of seriousness.

'The more thoroughly someone understands life, the less he will mock, except that eventually he may still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding."'


-  Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 240.

The Birth of Tragedy

' "All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both."

        That is your world!  A world indeed!'

-  Nietzsche, Section 9 (Goethe's Faust line 409)