Shame is Inventive

“Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness...

...there are actions of love and of an extravagant magnanimity after which nothing can be wiser than to take a stick and thrash the witness soundly: one thereby obscures his recollection.  

Many a one is able to obscure and abuse his own memory, in order at least to have vengeance on this sole party in the secret: shame is inventive.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886.