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Full Idea
In our conscious intellect there must be an excluding drive that scares things away, a selecting one, which only permits certain facta to present themselves.
Gist of Idea
Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[131])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.37
A Reaction
I like this because he is endorsing the idea that philosophy needs faculties, which may not match the views of psychologists and neuroscientists. Quite nice to think of faculties as drives.
Related Idea
Idea 24105 Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings [Nietzsche]