Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad
When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.
(n.) State of being distinctive.
Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.
Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, t...
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.