Part Six The Conscience of Europe
One who is aware of values which he regards as a hundredfold more precious than the wellbeing of the “fatherland,” of society, of the kinships of blood and race, values which stand above fatherlands and races, international values, such a man would prove himself hypocrite should he try to play the patriot. It is a degradation of mankind to encourage national hatred, to admire it, or to extol it.
Nietzsche, Vorreden Material im Nachlass.
La vocation ne peut être connue et prouvée que par le sacrifice que fait le savant et l’artiste de son repos et son bien-être pour suivre sa vocation.
Letter de Tolstoi a Romain Rolland.
4, Octobre, 1887.