Tag: behavior

This sympathy that springs up for those whose enemies we despise is inevitable, and it is a sympathy that intensifies the worse they are; a sympathy, therefore, that grows despite the merits of the sympathized. Injustice is deplorable, and greatly diminishes the appearance of faults. When we come across a target of human insidiousness and perfidy, there is no way we can remain impassive and, if not by affinity, by refusing malevolence we have already put ourselves in a position.

In the face of every impossible achievement, in the face of the most impressive miracles, there are always those who stop at the insignificance of a detail in order to thwart the colossus, or rather, to stroke their envy and console themselves for their inability to achieve or even understand such an achievement. The man really is a pitiful animal… Only infinite mercy can save him.

What makes the Germanic genius so curious is its extreme perfectionism, present from the highest to the lowest manifestations of the spirit. This causes, above all, a contrast of enormous dimensions between individuals of different inclinations, so that it is surprising to note that in Germanic countries, as in others, there are neighbors on the doorstep and there is social interaction. Perhaps misanthropy has never been practiced with such devotion elsewhere, and perhaps there is no people with a greater number of notable misanthropes — not to mention geniuses…