"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher."
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Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.91, e-artnow
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