"But the fight against Plato or...the Christian-ecclesiastical pressure of millenia...has created in Europe a magnificent tension of the spirit the like of which had never yet existed on earth: with so tense a bow we can now shoot for the most distant goals.
"...we good Europeans* and free, very free spirits - we still feel it, the whole need of the spirit and the whole tension of its bow. And perhaps also the arrow, the task, and - who knows? - the goal -"
*Nietzsche's coinage, intiially introduced by him in Human, All-Too-Human (1878), section 475 (Portable Nietzsche, pp. 61-63).
[From Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans. and ed. by Walter Kaufmann, pp. 193-194]
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