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To Be Independent Of Public Opinion Is The First Formal Condition Of Achieving Anything Great Or Rational Whether In Life Or In Science. Great Achievement Is Assured, However, Of Subsequent Recognition And Grateful Acceptance By Public Opinion, Which In Due Course Will Make It One Of Its Own Prejudices

Nothing Great Has Been And Nothing Great Can Be Accomplished Without Passion. It Is Only A Dead, Too Often, Indeed, A Hypocriticalmoralizing Which Inveighs Against The Form Of Passion As Such.

What Is Rational Is Actual And What Is Actual Is Rational

We Must Have A New Mythology, But It Must Place Itself At The Service Of Ideas, It Must Become A Mythology Of Reason. Mythology Must Become Philosophical, So That The People May Become Rational, And Philosophy Must Become Mythological, So That Philosophers May Become Sensible. If We Do Not Give Ideas A Form That Is Aesthetic, I.e., Mythological, They Will Hold No Interest For People.

In History An Additional Result Is Commonly Produced By Human Actions Beyond That Which They Aim At And Obtain -- That Which They Immediately Recognize And Desire. They Gratify Their Own Interest; But Something Further Is Thereby Accomplished, Latent In The Actions In Question, Though Not Present To Their Consciousness, And Not Included In Their Design.