Nietzsche against the majority

I have grasped this much: if one had made the rise of great and rare men dependent upon the approval of the many ( assuming that the latter knew what qualities belonged to greatness and also at whose expense all greatness evolves )—well, there would never have been a single significant man!—

That the course of things makes its way independently of the approval of the great majority: that is why a few astonishing things have insinuated themselves on the Earth.

~Friedrich Nietzsche