Capitolo 39
us. Such men are rare, and their thought, when they produce him/it to them, it is sure
to be unpleasant. For, if it were otherwise, he/she would be thought of ours
just type--family, banal, you speak for common places, not original. He/she would meet
any resistance, as it thrilled on his/her way through our brain, from
established errors. There for what the genius and the prophet are is
only that--it stuffed to listen badly to truth gatherings, to force us to feel,
to drive facts awkward right house with strength of sleigh-hammer to the
hearts not prepared and brains of us. What _you_ wants to feel, or that that
_I_ wants to feel, it is good and profit for us; but that that us _do doesn't want
feels, what we cannot bear to think, what we hate to believe that that us
tooth of struggle and it nails against. The men that do us listen to _that_ it is
the clairvoyant and the prophet; he comes on us as Shelley or Whitman, or
Ibsen, and it fattens up down the horrid truths that half surprise, mean disgust
us. He shakes out us of our lethargy. To such it gives ear, although they says
what hits You. Hung well their hateful ideas. You avoid the vulgar vice
of sneering and to quibble to them. You learn to examine their naked thought
without tightening himself/herself/themselves, and it examines more attentively him all the when it more anymore
It rejects her. Naked truth is an acquired taste; it is never beautiful to
before perceives to the unaccostomed vision. You remember that anybody question is
it finally established; what anybody question is the consideration completely on; that
thing You care tenderly as more saint is more probably wrong; and what in social
and the moral matters especially (where men have been dominated more from very from pure
superstitions) new and amazing forms of thought have the tallest _a
the probability of priori_ in their favour. You dismiss Your idols. Gives each
opinion his/her equitable opportunity of the success--especially when it seems to you both
bad and ridiculous, remembering that it is best to do five