Blame (n.) is sought wherever there is failure, because condemning the 'guilty' is the instinctive remedy for depressed spirits: he is a sacrifice to the humiliated, proving they still have some strength left.
Blame (n.) of one action is blame of everything: a reprehensible action means a reprehended world — everything is so bound up with everything else that to exclude something is to exclude everything.
Blame (n.) has nothing to fix on, since nothing is reprehensible in itself — everything is connected: to reject one thing is to reject everything, and in a reprehended world even reprehending would be reprehensible.
Blame (n.) laid always on others still belongs to the mob, blame always assumed oneself is on the path of wisdom, and the wise man blames no one, neither himself nor others.
Blame (n.) fastens on someone or other for my feeling ill, and is held the more firmly the more the real cause stays hidden.
Blame (n.) is the honey of revenge sufferers prescribe themselves — socialists find the culprit in others, Christians in themselves; it makes no difference.
Blame (n.) is preferred to bad luck because you can take revenge on a person, while an accident must simply be swallowed.