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conditions for his task; this task itself demands something
else it requires him TO CREATE VALUES. The
philosophical workers, after the excellent pattern of Kant
and Hegel, have to fix and formalize some great existing
body of valuations that is to say, former
DETERMINATIONS OF VALUE, creations of value,
which have become prevalent, and are for a time called
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 truths  whether in the domain of the LOGICAL, the
POLITICAL (moral), or the ARTISTIC. It is for these
investigators to make whatever has happened and been
esteemed hitherto, conspicuous, conceivable, intelligible,
and manageable, to shorten everything long, even  time
itself, and to SUBJUGATE the entire past: an immense
and wonderful task, in the carrying out of which all
refined pride, all tenacious will, can surely find satisfaction.
THE REAL PHILOSOPHERS, HOWEVER, ARE
COMMANDERS AND LAW-GIVERS; they say:  Thus
SHALL it be! They determine first the Whither and the
Why of mankind, and thereby set aside the previous
labour of all philosophical workers, and all subjugators of
the past they grasp at the future with a creative hand,
and whatever is and was, becomes for them thereby a
means, an instrument, and a hammer. Their  knowing is
CREATING, their creating is a law-giving, their will to
truth is WILL TO POWER.  Are there at present
such philosophers? Have there ever been such
philosophers? MUST there not be such philosophers some
day? &
212. It is always more obvious to me that the
philosopher, as a man INDISPENSABLE for the morrow
and the day after the morrow, has ever found himself, and
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HAS BEEN OBLIGED to find himself, in contradiction
to the day in which he lives; his enemy has always been
the ideal of his day. Hitherto all those extraordinary
furtherers of humanity whom one calls philosophers
who rarely regarded themselves as lovers of wisdom, but
rather as disagreeable fools and dangerous interrogators
have found their mission, their hard, involuntary,
imperative mission (in the end, however, the greatness of
their mission), in being the bad conscience of their age. In
putting the vivisector s knife to the breast of the very
VIRTUES OF THEIR AGE, they have betrayed their
own secret; it has been for the sake of a NEW greatness of
man, a new untrodden path to his aggrandizement. They
have always disclosed how much hypocrisy, indolence,
self-indulgence, and self-neglect, how much falsehood was
concealed under the most venerated types of
contemporary morality, how much virtue was
OUTLIVED, they have always said  We must remove
hence to where YOU are least at home In the face of a
world of  modern ideas, which would like to confine
every one in a corner, in a  specialty, a philosopher, if
there could be philosophers nowadays, would be
compelled to place the greatness of man, the conception of
 greatness, precisely in his comprehensiveness and
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multifariousness, in his all-roundness, he would even
determine worth and rank according to the amount and
variety of that which a man could bear and take upon
himself, according to the EXTENT to which a man could
stretch his responsibility Nowadays the taste and virtue of
the age weaken and attenuate the will, nothing is so
adapted to the spirit of the age as weakness of will
consequently, in the ideal of the philosopher, strength of
will, sternness, and capacity for prolonged resolution, must
specially be included in the conception of  greatness , with
as good a right as the opposite doctrine, with its ideal of a
silly, renouncing, humble, selfless humanity, was suited to
an opposite age such as the sixteenth century, which
suffered from its accumulated energy of will, and from the
wildest torrents and floods of selfishness In the time of
Socrates, among men only of worn-out instincts, old
conservative Athenians who let themselves go  for the
sake of happiness, as they said, for the sake of pleasure, as
their conduct indicated and who had continually on
their lips the old pompous words to which they had long
forfeited the right by the life they led, IRONY was
perhaps necessary for greatness of soul, the wicked Socratic
assurance of the old physician and plebeian, who cut
ruthlessly into his own flesh, as into the flesh and heart of
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the  noble, with a look that said plainly enough  Do not
dissemble before me! here we are equal! At present, on
the contrary, when throughout Europe the herding-
animal alone attains to honours, and dispenses honours,
when  equality of right can too readily be transformed
into equality in wrong I mean to say into general war
against everything rare, strange, and privileged, against the
higher man, the higher soul, the higher duty, the higher
responsibility, the creative plenipotence and lordliness at
present it belongs to the conception of  greatness to be
noble, to wish to be apart, to be capable of being different,
to stand alone, to have to live by personal initiative, and
the philosopher will betray something of his own ideal
when he asserts  He shall be the greatest who can be the
most solitary, the most concealed, the most divergent, the
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