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“I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.”
― The Birth of Tragedy
― The Birth of Tragedy
“Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.”
― The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's Philosophical Exploration of Art and Tragedy
― The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's Philosophical Exploration of Art and Tragedy
“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak about poetry so abstractly because we all tend to be poor poets. The aesthetic phenomenon is fundamentally simple: if someone simply possesses the capacity to see a living game going on continually and to live all the time surrounded by hordes of ghosts, then the man is a poet; if someone simply feels the urge to change himself and to speak out from other bodies and souls, then that person is a dramatist.”
― The Birth of Tragedy
― The Birth of Tragedy
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