| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: may feel themselves with their critical or systematic wills,
something within them leads them, something impels them in
definite order the one after the other--to wit, the innate
methodology and relationship of their ideas. Their thinking is,
in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a
remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient
common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly
grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest
order. The wonderful family resemblance of all Indian, Greek, and
German philosophizing is easily enough explained. In fact, where
there is affinity of language, owing to the common philosophy of
Beyond Good and Evil |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: She took her place at the farther end of the apartment, and
continued standing, as if ready for attendance.
Meanwhile the Earl, for he was of no inferior rank, returned his
lady's caress with the most affectionate ardour, but affected to
resist when she strove to take his cloak from him.
"Nay," she said, "but I will unmantle you. I must see if you
have kept your word to me, and come as the great Earl men call
thee, and not as heretofore like a private cavalier."
"Thou art like the rest of the world, Amy," said the Earl,
suffering her to prevail in the playful contest; "the jewels, and
feathers, and silk are more to them than the man whom they adorn
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: Now no controversial subject can be taught dogmatically. He who knows
only the official side of a controversy knows less than nothing of its
nature. The abler a schoolmaster is, the more dangerous he is to his
pupils unless they have the fullest opportunity of hearing another
equally able person do his utmost to shake his authority and convict
him of error.
At present such teaching is very unpopular. It does not exist in
schools; but every adult who derives his knowledge of public affairs
from the newspapers can take in, at the cost of an extra halfpenny,
two papers of opposite politics. Yet the ordinary man so dislikes
having his mind unsettled, as he calls it, that he angrily refuses to
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