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People misunderstand his motives, resent his keeping to himself, reject his need of solitude, and prove totally unable to understand his reasons for staying on his own lone path rather than society's beaten path. So they descend to injustice, call him haughty or self-centered or poseur. His refusal to get involved in relationships which will sap time and energy needed for higher things or in situations whose troubled outcome he can foresee quite clearly, will be denounced with anger as inhuman.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 5 : Solitude > # 38