Ernst Nolte, Introduction, Part Two (Nietzsche and Nietzscheanism)
"Philosophers [...] were until Hegel 'doctrinaire theologians.'"
Introduction, Part Two
From Nietzsche and Nietzscheanism
Nietzsche is to be grasped as an intellectual in the following. Here too we must distinguish between a broad and a strict definition. If he whose life consists primarily in intellectual activity, because he can on account of favorable circumstances dedicate himself predominantly or exclusively to this activity or because he obtains his livelihood thereby, is an intellectual, and if therefore the opposite is bodily labor, labor “by the sweat of one’s brow,” then all philosophers from Thales and Parmenides onward and in prior eras the members of priestly classes were intellectuals, and indeed in our time almost majorities of the populations of some advanced countries are to be included in this group.