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“We take pleasure in the negation of the hero, the supreme appearance of the Will, because he is, after all, mere appearance, and because the eternal life of the Will is not affected by his annihilation.”
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
“Søren Kierkegaard: Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion—and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.”
― Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking
― Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking
“And a people - or, for that matter, a human being - only has value to the extent that it is able to put the stamp of the eternal on its experiences; for in doing so it sheds, one might say, its worldliness and reveals its unconscious, inner conviction that time is relative and that the true meaning oflife is metaphysical.”
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
― The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
“From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.”
― History of Madness
― History of Madness
“Let us imagine a rising generation with this fearless gaze, with this heroic attraction to what is monstrous, let us imagine the bold stride of these dragon-killers, the proud recklessness with which they turn their backs on all the enfeebled doctrines of scientific optimism so that they may 'live resolutely', wholly and fully; would not the tragic man of this culture, given that he has trained himself for what is grave and terrifying, be bound to desire a new form of art, the art of metaphysical solace, in fact to desire tragedy as his very own Helen, and to call out along with Faust:
And shall I not, with all my longing's vigour,
Draw into life that peerless, lovely figure?”
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And shall I not, with all my longing's vigour,
Draw into life that peerless, lovely figure?”
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