The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Buckle affords the best example of the extent to which a plebeian agitator of the mob is incapable of arriving at a clear idea of the concept, "higher nature." The opinion which he _combats_ so passionately--that "great men," individuals, princes, statesmen, geniuses, warriors, are the levers and _causes_ of all great movements, is instinctively misunderstood by him, as if it meant that all that was essential and valuable in such a "higher man," was the fact that he was capable of setting masses in motion; in short, that his sole merit was the effect he produced.... But the "higher nature" of the great man resides precisely in being different, in being unable to communicate with others, in the loftiness of his rank--_not_ in any sort of effect he may produce even though this be the shattering of both hemispheres.
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