 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
He (Nietzsche) held that there are certain great men, or heroes, whose thoughts and emotions are important, but that the mass of mankind are to be considered solely as means or obstacles to the florescence of the superior few. The French Revolution, he says, was justified because it produced Napoleon. There is a difficulty in giving precision to this doctrine, since there is no precise definition of the “hero”; in practice, he is just someone whom Nietzsche admires. ... But in theory Nietzsche's doctrine could be made precise; it could be said, for instance, that the only men who "count" are those with an intelligence quotient of 180 and upwards. It is to be expected that men with an intelligence quotient of 179 would wish the doctrine slightly modified, but perhaps a government of the super-intelligent would find ways of dealing with them.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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