“Not enough! - It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!”

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Nietzsche lived with his intellectual problems as with realities, he experienced a similar emotional commitment to them as other men experience to their wife and children…He makes clear what he means by intellectual problems in these few posthumously published notes:

“As soon as you feel yourself against me you have ceased to understand my position and consequently my arguments! You have to be the victim of the same passion!
I want to awaken the greatest mistrust of myself: I speak only of things I have experienced and do not offer only events in the head.
One must want to experience the great problems with one’s body and one’s soul.
I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.
You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however, am sitting in the carriage, and often am the carriage itself.”

In a man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

“A new species of philosophers is coming up: I venture to baptize them with a name that is not free of danger […] these philosophers of the future might require in justice, perhaps also in injustice, to be called attempters [Versucher]. The name itself is in the end a mere attempt and, if you will, a temptation [Versuchung].”

“The missing ear - ‘So long as one always lays the blame on others one still belongs to the mob, when one always assumes responsibility oneself one is on the path of wisdom; but the wise man blames no one, neither himself nor others’. - Who says this? - Epictetus, eighteen hundred years ago. - It was heard but forgotten. - No, it was not heard and forgotten: not everything gets forgotten. But there was lacking an ear for it, the ear of Epictetus. - So did he say it into his own ear? - Yes, this is how it is: wisdom is the whispering of the solitary to himself in the crowded marketplace.”