The Gay Science, Section 108

Great Intellects Are Skeptical.

Are You Genuine? Or Just An Actor? A Representative? Or What It Is That Is Represented?-in The End, You Might Merely Be Someone Mimicking An Actor ... Second Question Of Conscience.

If There Is Something To Pardon In Everything, There Is Also Something To Condemn.

What? A Great Man? I Only Ever See The Ape Of His Own Ideal.

When A Man Reaches His Maturity In Understanding And In Years, The Feeling Comes Over Him That His Father Was Wrong To Beget Him.