testing the reader

To engage Nietzsche, then, is not merely to learn a set of concepts. It is to enter a field of force. His thought tests the reader. It asks whether one’s convictions are inherited or chosen, whether one’s moral language conceals resentment, whether one’s hopes depend on guarantees that no longer hold. It demands intellectual honesty of a rare kind—the willingness to follow a thought even when it threatens comfort.

The Wisdom of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power, the Death of God, and the Courage to Create