The Masses Are Only To Be Regarded

I Was At Home Then In The World Of Figures, But Not In That Of Values.

That A Literature In Our Time Is Living Is Shown In That Way That It Debates Problems.

Forgetfulness, The Unhistorical, Is ... The Atmosphere, In Which Alone Life Can Come Into Being. In Order To Understand It, Let Us Imagine A Youth Who Is Seized With A Passion For A Woman, Or A Man Who Is Swayed By A Passion For His Work. In Both Cases What Lies Behind Them Has Ceased To Exist And Yet This State (the Most Unhistorical That Can Be Imagined) Is That In Which Every Action, Every Great Deed Is Conceived And Accomplished.

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.

[nietzsche] Attributes To Himself An Extremely Vivid And Sensitive Instinct Of Cleanliness. At The First Contact The Filth Lying At The Base Of Another's Nature Is Revealed To Him. The Unclean Are Therefore Ill At Ease Hi His Presence