[…] The conditions under which one understands me and then necessarily understands – I know them all too well. One must be honest in intellectual matters to the point of harshness to so much as endure my seriousness, my passion. One must be accustomed to living on mountains – to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egoism beneath one. One must have become indifferent, one must never ask whether truth is useful or whether it is a fatality … A preference, born of strength, for questions for which no one today has the courage; courage for the forbidden; predestination
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Nietzsche’s advice for those trying to understand him
