It is no small feat to remain cheerful while being in a dark and overly responsible situation; and yet, what could be more important than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds without the role of joy.

The surplus of power is the only proof of power. - A re-evaluation of all values, this question mark so black, so enormous, which casts its shadow over the one who poses it - such a destiny of a duty forces us at every moment to run out into the sun to shake off a heavy seriousness, a seriousness that has become overly burdensome.

Every means is right for this thing, every 'case' a happy coincidence. Mostly war. War has always been the great trick of all spirits that have become overly inward, overly deep; even a wound has healing power.

[Excerpt from the text of the preface]