悲劇的誕生The Birth Of Tragedy 第82期:蘇格拉底的護守神
We are offered a key to the mind of Socrates in that remarkable phenomenon known as his daimonion.
所謂“蘇格拉底的護守神”這個奇怪現象，提供我們解決蘇格拉底的真髓這問題的祕鑰。
In certain critical situations, when even his massive intellect faltered, he was able to regain his balance through the agency of a divine voice, which he heard only at such moments.
尤其是在他的莫大才智有所不遞的場合，那時就出現一種神啓的聲音，使他獲得穩固的根據。
The voice always spoke to dissuade.
這種聲音來臨時，往往是勸阻他的。
The instinctual wisdom of this anomalous character manifests itself from time to time as a purely inhibitory agent, ready to defy his rational judgment.
這種直覺的智慧，在極其反常狀態中出現，在某些場合，不外是爲了阻止他的知覺的認識。
Whereas in all truly productive men instinct is the strong, affirmative force and reason the dissuader and critic, in the case of Socrates the roles are reversed: instinct is the critic, consciousness the creator.
在所有創造旺盛的人物，直覺總是一種積極創造的力量，知覺則起着批判和勸阻的作用，但是在蘇格拉底則不然，直覺是批判性的，知覺是創造性的：
Truly a monstrosity!
這真是一件大怪事 perdefeotum（遺憾得很）！
Because of this lack of every mystical talent Socrates emerges as the perfect pattern of the non-mystic, in whom the logical side has become, through superfetation, as overdeveloped as has the instinctual side in the mystic.
真的，在這裏我們見到一切神祕天才的一大defectum（憾事），所以蘇拉格底堪稱爲特種的非神祕派，他的推理天性因妊育過久而發展到極點，正如神祕派的直覺智慧發展到極點那樣。然而，另一方面，蘇格拉底的推理傾向卻不像他的直覺，
Yet it was entirely impossible for Socrates' logical impetus to turn against itself.
它絕不會自相矛盾，
In its unrestrained onrush it exhibited an elemental power such as is commonly found only in men of violent instincts, where we view it with awed surprise.
它暢流無阻，顯出一種自然而然的能力，如同我們只在最偉大的直覺能力中可能發現而欺觀止的天賦能力那樣，
