The Joyful Wisdom

divined that behind the destroyer is the creator, and behind the blasphemer the lover of life. In the retrospective

The people venerate an entirely different type of man when on their part they form the ideal of a "sage," and they are a thousand times justified in rendering homage with the highest eulogies and honours to precisely that type of men—namely, the gentle, serious, simple, chaste, priestly natures and those related to them,—it is to them that the praise falls due in the popular veneration of wisdom.

The talent for classifications, for tables of categories, betrays something; it is not for nothing that a person is the child of his parents.