Brittany Schultz’s Reviews > The Birth of Tragedy > Status Update

yes i’m still here

“Although of life’s two halves - waking and sleeping- the former is held to be preferable, more important, more considerable, and more worth living, indeed the only one that is lived, I should still, paradoxical as it may sound, like to maintain the opposite valuation of the dream in relation to the mysterious foundation of our being, whose phenomena we are.”

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“The noblest clay, the most precious marble, man, is kneaded and hewn here”

Through the attempt at self-criticism, what a ride.

“From the start Christianity was, essentially and fundamentally, the embodiment of disgust and antipathy for life, merely disguised, concealed, got up as the belief in an ‘other’ or a ‘better’ life.”

If an intro is going to be 50 pages long, it should count to pages.

Anyways, what a start…

“We only need consider the Socratic maxims: ‘Virtue is knowledge, all sins arise from ignorance, the virtuous man is the happy man.’ In these three basic optimistic formulae lies the death of tragedy.”