“It is the business of the very few
to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it,
even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is
probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a
labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself
already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and
where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some
minotaur of conscience. Supposing such a one comes to grief, it is so far from
the comprehension of men that they neither feel it, nor sympathize with it. And
he cannot any longer go back! He cannot even go back again to the sympathy of
men!”
Friedrich
Nietzsche
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