cosmic expression (Schopenhauer, for instance), have been very fond of speaking of their “ genius.’’ These geniuses were unable to soar beyond themselves, but they believed that, in whatever direction they would fly, they would everywhere find, recover themselves—this is their “ greatness’ and can be greatness! The others who by rights deserve this name, have the pure and purifying eye, which seems to have grown apart from their temper and character, but which, shackled by them and mostly in mild opposition to them, looks down upon the world as a God whom it loves. But even these do not acquire such an eye at once: they need practice and a preparatory school of sight, and he who is fortunate enough will at the proper time also meet with a teacher of pure sight.
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Never demand.—You do not know him! True, he easily and readily submits to men and things, and is kind to both; his only wish is to be left alone—but only in as much as men and things do not demand submission. Any demand makes him proud, shy and warlike.
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The evil—“None but the solitary are evil,” thus spike Diderot: and forthwith Rousseau felt deeply offended. He consequently admitted to himself that
