"Every Man Has Hated Mankind When He Was Less than a Man"

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nietzsche's aristocracy has about it all the sacredness that belongs to the weak.  When he makes us feel that he cannot endure the innumerable faces, the incessant voices, the overpowering omnipresence which belongs to the mob, he will have the sympathy of anybody who has ever been sick on a steamer or tired in a crowded omnibus.  Every man has hated mankind when he was less than a man.  Every man has had humanity in his eyes like a blinding fog, humanity in his nostrils like a suffocating smell.  But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of strong wills, it is necessary to point out the truth.  It is an aristocracy of weak nerves."




-Chesterton, "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family," Heretics

(My emphases)

"I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one" - Chesterton

The author of this blog, and his wife;
truly incompatible, truly in love!

"If Americans can be divorced for 'incompatibility of temper' I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced.  I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one.  The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable.  For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible."

- G. K. Chesterton, "The Free Family," What's Wrong with the World