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In that crazy life, what is the most typical personality? Nature has endowed Frédéric Nietzsche with a keen sensibility, a delicate and powerful intelligence, an inquisitive spirit and a tender heart longing for love Education has developed those innate virtues. And in the enemy of Christianity one can find a great deal of the neo-religious spirit, which his forefathers theologians promoted and inspired by his parents. For example, once in a letter to Rohde, he declared his hatred of Christianity: “I have never felt so full of Lutheran spirit. I praise that pure and good atmosphere.” New converts have always sought to combine a religion-based morality and a free critical spirit. Both tendencies are to be found in Nietzsche’s character, and those closest to him at least notice it. Recalling his days in the Sorrente, Malwida von Meysenbug wrote, “How fluid Nietzsche’s gentleness and kindness were. His gentle and amiable nature reconciled his destructive intelligence!”