1. Whoever shakes the world with his voice will remain silent for a long time; whoever ignites lightning will wander like clouds for a long time

Analysis: If a person wants to gain great fame in the world , one must first endure the pain of long-term loneliness and neglect. This sentence is mainly directed at thinkers. Many great thinkers were unknown during their lifetimes but were remembered after their deaths, such as Van Gogh, Helderlin, Kafka, Kierkegaard, China's Cao Xueqin, and Nietzsche. . The reason is that the ideas of these great figures were ahead of their time, and no one understood them at the time. After the washing of history, these shining ideas increasingly reflect their value, that is to say, gold will always shine. As for some scholars who were famous while they were still alive, their voices have mostly been lost in history because they catered to the vulgar tastes of the public.

Of course this is not absolute, Goethe is an outstanding example. He established his lifelong reputation at a young age. We can divide geniuses into two types. One is classical, rational, healthy, and strong geniuses like Goethe, such as Shakespeare, Kant, Hegel, and Voltaire. They can handle the inner and outer world well. The various contradictions in the world are brought to a harmonious state, and they are at home in this world; the other is the romantic, emotional, passionate, and dangerous geniuses mentioned above (even Goethe fell into this category in his early years) Type), they have passionate emotions, cannot accurately grasp the rhythm of the inner and outer worlds, lack the ability in social life and interpersonal relationships, they cannot adapt to life in the outer world, and the inner world is often full of contradictions.

All geniuses can be classified into these two categories, and this also applies to ordinary people. We can often see that when facing social life, some people deal with it calmly and some behave inappropriately; in the spiritual world, some people are colorful and some are desolate. In fact, Jung had already described this in his psychoanalytic theory. He believed that neurosis was caused by the imbalance between the inner world and the outer world. Therefore, if a person wants to live happily, he must find a balance between the inner world and the outer world, and between rationality and sensibility. I think the ‘doctrine’ and ‘harmony’ advocated in traditional Chinese philosophy also have this meaning.

Nietzsche’s sentences are brilliant in literary style. Although they are true, most of them are extreme, which also reflects the deep pain in his heart. Genius is always difficult to understand, genius is always painful, and genius always has to pay a certain price for his genius.