R. J. Hollingdale

“Nietzsche's views have always seemed so strikingly different from the background of opinion against which he grew up that they have often been thought to owe their origin to a violent reaction against his upbringing.  His entire philosophy even has been seen as no more than a calculated antithesis to the tradition in which he was raised.”

“The more closely one studies Nietzsche's work, the less inclined one is to look outside it for an elucidation of its meaning or an explanation of its origin.”