But all these are only preconditions of his task: this task itself demands something different – it demands that he create values. […] Actual philosophers […] are commanders and law-givers: they say ‘thus it shall be!’, it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical labourers, of all those who have subdued the past – they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
A philosopher must create value
