In re-reading some of Nietzsche recently, I came across a passage that helped me to resolve this difficulty. This strikes a theme, later picked up by Sartre and other existentialists, that you and I create ourselves as we go along. Still, there is the possibility, at least, that the creature can become a creator, and this is what I take to be the major theme of Nietzsche's writings. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions. When we read such writers as Mill, Emerson, and Nietzsche, we observe men who have become aware of their creaturehood and are determined to become creators of themselves.
Some human organisms do, and they can then become, in part at least, creators rather than creatures.
Those who do become the eyes of civilization and are no longer mere creatures. When Nietzsche began to look, what he was made him sick. He speaks of sitting at a table where other people are eating food that he cannot. This was literally true for Nietzsche, who was obliged by precarious health to live on a very restricted diet, but he uses the figure to characterize his feeling toward the culture of his time. Nietzsche was born in Germany in 1844.