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

  1. 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.