The highest judgment on life only arising from the highest energy of life. The mind must be removed as far as possible from exhaustion.
In the centre of the world-history judgment will be the most accurate; for it was there that the greatest geniuses existed.
The breeding of the genius as the only man who can truly value and deny life.
Save your genius! shall be shouted unto the people: set him free! Do all you can to unshackle him.
The feeble and poor in spirit must not be allowed to judge life.
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I dream of a combination of men who shall make no concessions, who shall show no consideration, and who shall be willing to be called "destroyers": they apply the standard of their criticism to everything and sacrifice themselves to truth. The bad and the false shall be brought to light! We will not build prematurely: we do not know, indeed, whether we shall ever be able to build, or if it would not be better not to build at all. There are lazy pessimists and resigned ones in this world—and it is to their number that we refuse to belong!
FOOTNOTES:
[1] No doubt a reminiscence of the "Odyssey," Bk. ix—Tr.
[2] Formal education is that which tends to develop the critical and logical faculties, as opposed to material education, which is intended to deal with the acquisition of knowledge and its valuation, e.g., history, mathematics, &c. "Material" education, of course, has nothing to do with materialism—Tr.