 ‘Genius’ alone, he once wrote, 'is never the whole man'.Heller points out that Nietzsche's and Rilke's opposition to "valid" distinctions — in particular Nietzsche's "relativisation of Good and Evil" — was an over-reaction.It took against what both writers diagnosed as the 'barbarism of concepts' of a 'crudely interpreted world' (the expression is Nietzsche's), whereby the dual aspects of immanence and transcendence — closer to each other than human thought has been prepared to allow over the centuries — open the floodgates to a series of specious distinctions.