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Carlyle is Carlyle. What idiots make of a great writer doesn't matter.

• Apocryphon 10y ago
  Nietzsche definitely gets a bad rep as well (his sister was the anti-Semite, for one, not him), and some of his fans definitely mutated his beliefs into something far more sinister. My point is more like, the misanthropic aspects of a figure show through in both their philosophy and their personal life. There's definitely other examples- look at Lovecraft. I just think it's an interesting pattern.