Ideals are pleasing
to the extent that
truths are horrible.
Ideals, in reality,
are ordeals.
The only
way to deny
that truth is
power is to
flee into
ideal.
Ideal is
a necessary
medicine against
truth that ends
up backfiring.
Thus, for example,
love is a pleasing ideal
to the extent that
power is a
horrible
truth.