Gerald Bivens
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lightheartedness
For lightheartedness, or to use my own phrase, a "gay science" is the reward of a long, courageous, painstaking, inward seriousness, which to be sure is not within every man's compass.1
Notes
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Genealogy of Morals," in The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals, Trans. Francis Golffing (New York: Anchor Books, 1956), 156.