To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.
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