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Beyond Good and Evil #5: The Great Hunt (II.38 - III.46)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Mask of Nietzsche

"Not to remain stuck to some pity, not even for higher men into whose rare torture and helplessness some accident allowed us to look," he writes. "To that voluptuous remoteness and strangeness of the bird who flees ever higher to see ever more below him." In a way, this is Nietzsche taking off his mask in the very subsequent passage where he's talking about masks. He says: "One must know how to conserve oneself the hardest test of independence"

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