Nate

“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters

“A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.”
― Max Horkheimer

“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.”
― Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel