Joan of Arc had all that, and again with this difference, that she did not praise fighting, but fought.

We know that she was not afraid of an army, while Nietzsche, for all we know, was afraid of a cow.

Tolstoy only praised the peasant; she was the peasant.

Nietzsche only praised the warrior; she was the warrior.

She beat them both at their own antagonistic ideals; she was more gentle than the one, more violent than the other.

Yet she was a perfectly practical person who did something, while they are wild speculators who do nothing.

— G.K. Chesterton

(Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith)