| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: a false conclusion. There are free insolent minds which would
fain conceal and deny that they are broken, proud, incurable
hearts (the cynicism of Hamlet--the case of Galiani); and
occasionally folly itself is the mask of an unfortunate OVER-
ASSURED knowledge.--From which it follows that it is the part of
a more refined humanity to have reverence "for the mask," and not
to make use of psychology and curiosity in the wrong place.
271. That which separates two men most profoundly is a different
sense and grade of purity. What does it matter about all their
honesty and reciprocal usefulness, what does it matter about all
their mutual good-will: the fact still remains--they "cannot
Beyond Good and Evil |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: and cover her with half-sobbing kisses. It was not until he had
carried her home, and had begun to think of the necessary washing,
that he recollected the need that he should punish Eppie, and "make
her remember". The idea that she might run away again and come to
harm, gave him unusual resolution, and for the first time he
determined to try the coal-hole--a small closet near the hearth.
"Naughty, naughty Eppie," he suddenly began, holding her on his
knee, and pointing to her muddy feet and clothes--"naughty to cut
with the scissors and run away. Eppie must go into the coal-hole
for being naughty. Daddy must put her in the coal-hole."
He half-expected that this would be shock enough, and that Eppie
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: hypocrisy to pursue them in their hearts unto the day when they
shall meet Him,- for that they did fail God in what they promised Him,
and for that they were liars!
Do they not know that God knows their secrets and their whisperings,
and that God knows the unseen things?
Those who defame such of the believers as willingly give their alms,
and such as can find nothing to give but their exertions, and who mock
at them,- God will mock at them, and for them is grievous woe!
Ask forgiveness for them or ask not forgiveness for them! if they
shouldst ask forgiveness for them seventy times, yet would not God
forgive them; that is because they disbelieved in God and His Apostle,
The Koran |
