Note 158 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)

This aversion is particularly strong in Nietzsche. (See Le Gai sçavoir, loc. cit., where generalization becomes a synonym for platitude, superficiality, stupidity.) Like a true artist, Nietzsche is incapable of understanding that the apperception of a common characteristic may be an act of genius—for instance, the apperception of the common characteristic between the movement of the planets and the fall of an apple.