"Nietzschean free spirits are not necessarily philosophers; but Nietzschean philosophers are necessarily free spirits. Voltaire, for Nietzsche, was an exemplary free spirit, as the original dedication of Human, All Too Human indicated...The 'free spirit' is 'a spirit that has become free' as Nietzsche emphasizes in his remarks on Human, All Too Human in Ecce Homo...True freedom of the spirit is something that is acquired--if at all--with difficulty, and only by a few."
--from Richard Schacht's Introduction to Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (Cambridge University Press edition, 1996, p. xxi).
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