Derek Diemer

“No one reveals himself as he is; we all wear a mask and play a role.

- On Psychology”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

“My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round
For Athis, and he lay down by his side,
Solaced among the shades to share his death.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man most strongly: he seeks for her soul - and goes on seeking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits