Having established, by means of a cloud of witnesses, the ruling passion of the national mind, I present in the following section proofs of the "Ambitions" in which this megalomania finds its natural utterance.
The mirage of glory not only obscures the material horror of war, but it conduces to a certain impatience of ideas which are not coloured by the prevalent megalomania of idealism.
It is when this profoundly disingenuous woman comes to an explanation of the motive behind her political work in India, that we find a typical specimen of the peculiar form of megalomania already so ably demonstrated by M.
Levy has already shown, there is much worse behind of which thismegalomania is only one symptom.
Thus even the Word of God itself is powerless to mitigate the immensemegalomania of the Jewish race.
Simon, indeed, crazed by his incantations and ecstasies, developed megalomania in an acute form, arrogating to himself divine honours and aspiring to the adoration of the whole world.
German megalomania finds expression in the seven thousand speeches and in the three hundred uniforms of the Kaiser.
As the race theory must inevitably lead to megalomania and reaction, so it must inevitably lead to militarism.
Of that megalomania the Kaiser has been, in innumerable speeches, the eloquent and insolent spokesman.
But themegalomania of the Teutons has only been one of the contributory causes.
That megalomania should have seized the mind of the Liberator under circumstances like these is not strange.
Jacoby has shown that unlimited power hastens degeneration, and tends to produce megalomania and dementia in those who possess it.
A woman affected with megalomania was always working the word DIO (God) into her embroidery.
Even in the cases of Hale and André, whose careers owe much of the halo which invests them to their tragic fate, one is suspicious of fanaticism in the former and pronounced megalomania in the latter, both symptoms of unsoundness of mind.
We make no apology for insisting that the fact that d'Antraigues was of Gascon birth is a point in favour of our idea that megalomania is in a large measure the motive-power which turns men and women to the business of espionage.
In view of our expressed opinion that megalomania largely underlies the psychology of the spy, it is interesting to note that Schulmeister also laid claim to the honour of lofty birth.
His megalomania is so well known through his writings, his verbal utterances, and the whole course of his life, that a bare reference to it is sufficient.
His megalomania appears only exceptionally as monstrous self-conceit; but it is, nevertheless, clearly conceivable; as a rule it displays a strong and even predominant union of mysticism and supernaturalism.
The nature of his megalomania is betrayed by the expressions ‘redeeming man’ and ‘redemption.
Nietzsche’s mysticism and megalomaniamanifest themselves not only in his somewhat more coherent thought, but also in his general mode of expression.
On the other hand, the hidden, mystic, primary idea of his megalomania already distinctly comes out in this passage: ‘But at some given time .
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