He who really wants to get to know… August 24, 2023 by Riston He who really wants to get to know something new does well to entertain it with all possible love and to avert his eyes quickly from everything in it he finds inimical, repellent, false, indeed to banish it from his mind: so that, for example, he allows the author of a book the longest start and then, like on watching a race, desires with beating heart that he may reach his goal. For with this procedure one penetrates to the heart of a new thing, to the point that actually moves it: and precisely this is what is meant by getting to know it. If one has gone this far, reason can afterwards make its reservations; that over-estimation, that temporary suspension of the critical pendulum, was only an artifice for luring forth the soul of a thing.
