Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments From the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, tr. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Spring 1884, §25 [193], p. 55 (with the note 233 of the translators, found in page 413):
The disadvantages of growing more isolated, since, at least, social instincts are inherited—the impossibility of validating ourselves through the apporval of others, the icy feeling, the scream «love me»—cas pathologiques like Jesus. Heinrich von Kleist and Goethe (Käthchen von Heilbronn).233
233 N's source unknown; however, cf. Goethe's Werke (Gedenkausgabe {der Werke, Briefe und Gespräche), ed. Ernst Beutler (Zurich: Artemis, 1949}), 22:876: «After Goethe had read . . . Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn, he said: A wonderful mixture of sense and nonsense! The damned unnaturalness! And he threw it into the glowing fire of the oven with the words: I will not produce it, even if half of Weimer demands it.» (E. W. Weber, date cannot be precisely determined.)
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