Sublime

O my friends, you shall save yourselves; therefore you must pass by much—especially much rabble who raise a din in your ears about the people and about peoples. Keep your eyes undefiled by

Toutefois il est infiniment plus facile de soulever une foule ou même un peuple entier que de l’apaiser.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices!”

As he put it, “An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” People in a crowd become anonymous. Their conscience is silenced. They lose a sense of personal responsibility. Crowds are peculiarly prone to regressive behaviour, primitive reactions, and instinctual behaviour.

if you act as the crowd does, you’re placing yourself on their level.

a master at the Nameless Art.

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.

Or else: the vanity of trying to say anything about anyone.