[...] vague and rhetorical, attach to certain acts of the spirit and we assume are its consequences, the scientific idea, the work of art, philosophical system, the historic feat, the label of 'big'. We refer to 'large' thoughts or ideas, products of intellectual genius, artistic or political. No less vague talk about thoughts 'deep' as opposed to trivial or superficial. Spionza down to the mine shaft, the man in the street usually slips by the banal surface of himself or the world.
[...] We all live in a constant magma supply and acts of thought, but only a very limited part of the species testifies to learn to think . Heidegger confessed gloomily that humanity as a whole had not left the prehistory of the mind. The literate brain-lack an appropriate term, are, in proportion to the mass of humanity, few. [...] But the ability to have worthwhile thoughts to be thought, indeed, to be expressed and maintained, is relatively rare. There are not many people who can think for a purpose that is original, let alone demanding it.
[...] [...] The truth, taught the Baal Shem, is perpetually in exile.
[...] [...] There is no democracy in the genius, only a terrible injustice and a burden that threatens life. Are few, such as Hölderlin said, they are forced to grasp the lightning with his bare hands.
This imbalance, along with their consequences, the mismatch of the great thinking and great creativity with the ideals of social justice, is a ninth source of melancholy ( Melancholie ).
'Ten (possible) reasons for the sadness of the thought' of George Steiner.
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