To hate mediocrity is unworthy of a philosopher: it is almost a note of interrogation to his "right to philosophy." It is precisely because he is the exception that he must protect the rule and ingratiate all mediocre people.
894.
What I combat: that an exceptional form should make war upon the rule—instead of understanding that the continued existence of the rule is the first condition of the value of the exception. For instance, there are women who, instead of considering their abnormal thirst for knowledge as a distinction, would fain dislocate the whole status of womanhood.
895.
The increase of strength despite the temporary ruin of the individual:—
A new level must be established;
We must have a method of storing up forces for the maintenance of small performances, in opposition to economic waste;
Destructive nature must for once be reduced to an instrument of this economy of the future;
The weak must be maintained, because there is an enormous mass of finicking work to be done;