Michael Wilson

“What the sense feels, what the spirit knows, that never has its end within it. But sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the end of all things: they are so vain.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra

“Mrs. Piozzi, speaking of cards, in her Retrospection, published in 1801, says, "It is a well-known vulgarity in England to say, 'Come, Sir, will you have a stroke at the history of the Four Kings?' meaning, Will you play a game at cards?" A writer in Fraser's Magazine, for August, 1844, also calls cards the books of the Four Kings, as if they were well known by that name.”
― William Andrew Chatto, Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

“I love the forest. In cities you live badly; there are too many lewd in them. Isn't it better to fall into the hands of a murderer than into the dreams of a wanton woman? And contemplate me those men: their eyes say it they know nothing better on earth than lying with a woman. Mud is at the bottom of his soul; And alas if its mud also has spirit!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra

“You look up when you want elevation. And I look downward, because I am elevated. Who of you can both laugh and be elevated? Whoever ascends the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, those of the theater and those of life. Courageous, carefree, ironic, violent, this is how wisdom wants us: she is a woman and always loves only a warrior.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra