you know it, otto...

A juxtaposition...

"All great things must first wear terrible and monstrous masks to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."
-Uncle Friedrich (Nietzsche)

"That which is imposing here on earth... has always something of the quality of the fallen angel who is beautiful but without peace, great in his conceptions and exertions but without success, proud and lonely."

-Otto von Bismarck (as quoted by Henry Kissinger in 'Diplomacy')