"Compassion, with you -- that, of course, is not compassion in your sense... Our compassion is a higher and more farsighted compassion: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller -- and there are moments when we behold your compassion with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this compassion -- when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible -- and there is no more insane "if possible" -- to abolish suffering. And we? It 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 end, a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible -- that makes his destruction desirable."
I've read it.
