
Originally Posted by
cafolini
I know a lot about Nietzsche because I studied him meticulously for over 20 years.
Good, and you also are familiar with Rand, what so you think of these two quotes of Rand on N. :
But, as a poet, he projects at times (not consistently) a magnificent feeling for man’s greatness, expressed in emotional, not intellectual, terms.
Nietzsche’s rebellion against altruism consisted of replacing the sacrifice of oneself to others by the sacrifice of others to oneself. He proclaimed that the ideal man is moved, not by reason, but by his “blood,” by his innate instincts, feelings and will to power—that he is predestined by birth to rule others and sacrifice them to himself, while they are predestined by birth to be his victims and slaves—that reason, logic, principles are futile and debilitating, that morality is useless, that the “superman” is “beyond good and evil,” that he is a “beast of prey” whose ultimate standard is nothing but his own whim.
"To say 'I love you' one must first know how to say the 'I'."
- Howard Roark, from The Fountainhead