Status Updates From The Birth of Tragedy / The ...

What if we gave ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE backing up any of the claims that we, A PROFESSOR OF PHILOLOGY, are making??

really funny of nietzsche to open his 2nd edition of this by saying "yeah a lot of this book sucks"

With this insight a culture is inaugurated that I venture to call a tragic culture. Its most important characteristic is that wisdom takes the place of science as the highest end—wisdom that, uninfluenced by the seductive distractions of the sciences, turns with unmoved eyes to a comprehensive view of the world, and seeks to grasp, with sympathetic feelings of love, the eternal suffering as its own.

Through tragedy the myth attains its most profound content, its most expressive form; it rises once more like a wounded hero, and its whole excess of strength, together with the philosophic calm of the dying, burns in its eyes with a last powerful gleam.