Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits / quote 28 of 58
The free spirit overturns whatever he finds veiled or protected by any reverential awe
With a sardonic laugh he overturns whatever he finds veiled or protected by any reverential awe: he would see what these things look like when they are overturned. It is wilfulness and delight in the wilfulness of it, if he now, perhaps, gives his approval to that which has heretofore been in ill repute—if, in curiosity and experiment, he penetrates stealthily to the most forbidden things.