The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child. - Georg Brandes

Der er ikke den ringeste Grund til at fordomme ham, men al Opfordring til at forsoge at forstaae ham... han er Gaaden, den store Gaade.

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

Nietzsche asks how it has come about that so prodigious a contradiction can exist as that between the lack of true culture and the self-satisfied belief in actually possessing the only true one and he finds the answer in the circumstance that a class of men has come to the front which no former century has known, and to which (in 1873) he gave the name of “Culture-Philistines.”