Nietzsche's Ideas And Plans: For Example, The

It Has Become Obligatory To Fulfil A Function Which Shall In Some Way Be Regarded As Useful To The Masses...even An Articulated Mass Always Tends To Become Unspiritual And Inhuman. It Is Life Without Existence, Superstition Without Faith. It May Stamp All Flat; It Is Disinclined To Tolerate Independence And Greatness, But Prone To Constrain People To Become As Automatic As Ants.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.

The More Determinedly I Exist, As Myself, Within The Conditions Of The Time, The More Clearly I Shall Hear The Language Of The Past, The Nearer I Shall Feel The Glow Of Its Life.

Nietzsche, Driven By The Absolute Demand Of His Existential Truthfulness, Could Not Abide The Bourgeois World, Even When Its Representative Had Human Nobility.

The Great Philosophers And The Great Works Are Standards For The Selection Of What Is Essential. Everything That We Do In Studying The History Of Philosophy Ultimately Serves Their Better Understanding.