How can historicism consistently exempt itself from its own verdict that all human thought is historical? - Laurence Lampert

Strauss’ whole study indicates that noble nature as Nietzsche presents it—no, embodies it—replaces divine nature as Plato presents it.

The way of Socrates had shown itself to be a limited way because it concerned itself “only with the scientific investigation of justice and the virtues,” and it had shown itself to be an intransigent way because it chose “non-conformity and death.” Plato corrected the way of Socrates—he removed the limitation and tempered its intransigence.

Nietzsche discovered the clue to esotericism early … “The fact of the pious fraud.”