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Full Idea
In nature's such as Caesar and Napoleon we intuit something of a 'disinterested' laboring on one's marble, regardless of any sacrifice of human beings. The future of the highest human beings lies on here: to bear responsibility and not collapse under it.
Gist of Idea
Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 1[056])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.274
A Reaction
Hideous. Nietzsche at his absolute worst. You would think there was some wonderful higher good to which they were leading the human race, when they just strike me as people who liked fighting, and adored winning.