Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human

By Oneself Alone

5 2 1 Greatness means: giving direction.-No river is made great and fertile by itself alone: but rather it is made so by absorbing and bearing onward so many tributaries. So it is, too, with all who are great in spirit. All that matters is that a single one provides the direction that the many tributaries then must follow; not whether he is at the beginning poorly or abundantly endowed.