Nietzsche's Circles

It can be said in general that Nietzsche believed that madness was the usual and natural state that was associated with the destinies of men of genius, and the status of madness cannot be undermined because it is a common pathological state... Nietzsche attributed the emergence of this confusion to a mistaken conclusion about the phenomenon of emotion, since people in general, when they noticed that emotion often results in clarity of mind and happy suggestions, believed that they could reach the happiest perceptions and the highest ideas through it, and thus the madman was considered wise and a granter of miracles... Madness is what paved the way for new opinions that broke the backbone of customs and revered superstitious beliefs, and therefore, all those superior men, driven by an irresistible urge to free themselves from the slavery of morality and ethics and to declare new laws, when they are not really mad, will have no choice but to become so, or to pretend to be mad. Plato, as Nietzsche mentioned, expressed all of this clearly when he said: Madness was behind all the blessings that I enjoyed. In Greece