Личност и обществен живот
The author proceeds from the conviction that there cannot be a society without a personality. Personality carries society on its shoulders, it spiritualizes and organizes it. Society without personality is a mass, a crowd, just as personality without society is only an abstraction. Thus the social aspect is internally conditioned by the individual aspect.Culture begins with the clarification of personality. The darker and more amorphous the inner life of a nation, the more indifferent and even hostile it is to the individual. Such is, for example, the Bulgarian people. Where else is personality so hated and defamed? Is there any other country where personalities are persecuted with such cynical fury? We do not know the personality cult, we have no sense of the autonomous and divine beginning of man, determined to suffer a fate, to create a tragedy for himself, to gain a feat. We don't like high peaks, we like to live without guides. We love the gregarious and unruly, the crudest, impersonal and fateless leveling and mingling with all
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