"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness."

Virtue, Blame, Madness, Praise

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"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness."

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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

Growth

"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities-I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not-that one endures."

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"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."

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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

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"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?"

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Recognition

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