Nietzsche wrote of humility (not to speak of patience, wisdom, and any other virtue lauded widely by the [[masses]]) as a weakness, a false virtue which concealed the frailties and hidden crookedness in its holder. His idealized ubermensch would be more apt to roam around unfettered by pretensions of humility, proud of his stature and power, but not reveling idly in it, and certainly not displaying [[hubris]]. | Nietzsche wrote of humility (not to speak of patience, wisdom, and any other virtue lauded widely by the [[masses]]) as a weakness, a false virtue which concealed the frailties and hidden crookedness in its holder. His idealized ubermensch would be more apt to roam around unfettered by pretensions of humility, proud of his stature and power, but not reveling idly in it, and certainly not displaying [[hubris]]. |