Beyond Good And Evil

If the Europeans are to have virtue, it must of course be the virtue that they have found on their own, and it must align with the inclinations and tendencies of the heart. The inclinations must be those of instinct, “the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence” (131), much more than any other kind of intelligence that has thus been uncovered and related up to the present time. These inclinations are out of favor with the commonfolk, however, and it is their practice to be always judging and condemning the morals of others, always a favorite pastime of those who are intellectually inferior and who wield their superiority as a weapon out of shame for their natural deficiencies.

To the contrary, it is always the interests and concerns of those of a higher constitution and more noble bearing that the commonfolk find boring and completely uninteresting. In the free spirit, the one who is destined to be in command, the virtues of the commoners will needfully be vices, for these virtues would simply be wasted. Sympathy as well, all too fine for the average person, is to be derided, and it is in fact what should truly be held sympathetically.