Any Feeling That I Was

It Appears To Nietzsche That The Modern Age Has Produced For Imitation Three Types Of Man ... First, Rousseau's Man, The Titan Who Raises Himself ... And In His Need Calls Upon Holy Nature. Then Goethe's Man ... A Spectator Of The World ... Third Schopenhauer's Man ... Voluntarily Takes Upon Himself The Pain Of Telling The Truth.

But What Of The Voice And Judgment Of Conscience? The Difficulty Is That We Have A Conscience Behind Our Conscience, An Intellectual One Behind The Moral. ... We Can See Quite Well That Our Opinions Of What Is Noble And Good, Our Moral Valuations, Are Powerful Levers Where Action Is Concerned; But We Must Begin By Refining These Opinions And Independently Creating For Ourselves New Tables Of Values.

History, In [nietzsche's] View, Belongs To Him Who Is Fighting A Great Fight, And Who Needs Examples, Teachers And Comforters, But Cannot Find Them Among His Contemporaries. Without History The Mountain Chain Of Great Men's Great Moments, Which Runs Through Millennia, Could Not Stand Clearly And Vividly Before Me.

The Society Of The Culture-philistines Makes Life A Burden To Exceptional Men.

The Educator Shall Help The Young To Educate Themselves In Opposition To The Age.