Meh. Nietzsche was a madman. An interesting one, perhaps, but a madman nonetheless.

"I am having all the anti-Semites shot." -- Nietzsche

Personally, I think Nietzsche never got past embarrassing himself over Cosima Wagner and spent the rest of his life trying to get over it. Until he went completely nuts, that is, and forgot that he'd ever written anything.

The kindest that one could say about Nietzsche is from Walter Kaufmann:
"He challenges readers not so much to agree or disagree, but to think."

Well, I've thought about it, and I think he was a madman.

Nietzsche should have stuck with philology.

Tolstoy had his number: "Neither in talent nor in their basic argument do these writings justify public attention."