p span style="font-family: arial;" strong em "You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - em to abolish suffering /em . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an em end /em , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction em desirable /em . The discipline of suffering, of em great /em suffering - do you not know that only em this /em discipline has created all enhancements of man so far?" /em br / /strong ( /span span style="font-family: arial;" em Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil /em ) /span /p