18/28 From the senses originate all trustworthiness, all good conscience, all evidence of truth. Pharisaism is not a deterioration of the good man; a considerable part of it is rather an essential condition of being good. The one seeks an accoucheur for his thoughts, the other seeks some one whom he can assist: a good conversation thus originates. In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse--and forget it immediately. |