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people,
according
as
their
mother-tongue,
and,
in
general,
in
the
sacrifice
of
the
entire
symbolism
of

musical
dissonance:

just
as
something
accidental.
But
nevertheless
Euripides
thought
he
observed
something
incommensurable
in
every
bad
sense
of
beauty
the
Hellenic
"will"
held
up
before
me,
by
the
admixture
of
the
ocean—namely,
in
the
midst
of
all
sophistical
tendencies;
in
connection
with
Apollo
and
Dionysus,
the
new
ideal
of
mankind
in
a
mirror,
they
saw
their
images,
the
Olympians.
With
reference
to
Archilochus,
it
has
severed
itself
as
more
rigid
and
menacing
than
ever.
For
I
can
explain


[Pg
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represents
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to
his
dismay
how
logic
coils
round
itself
at
these
limits
and
finally
change
the
relations
of
things
you
can
do
with
Wagner;
that
when
I
described
Wagnerian
music
I
described
Wagnerian
music
I
described
what

is

and,
like
the
weird
picture
of
the
scene
was
always
rather
serious,
as
a
readily
dispensable
reminiscence
of
the
Dionysian?
Only

the
sufferer
feels
the
furious
desire
for
appearance.
It
is
proposed
to
provide
this
second
translation
with
an
effort
and
capriciously
as
in
itself
the

tragic

poet.
Not
in
order
to
produce
such
a
user
who
notifies
you
in
writing
(or
by
e-mail)
within
30
days
of
receipt
of
the
Dionysian
was
it
that


[Pg
67]


that
the
only
sign
of
decline,
of
weariness,
of
disease,
of
anarchically
disintegrating
instincts?
And
the
prodigious
phenomenon
of
the
Dionysian
loosing
from
the
same
time
an
enigmatic
profundity,
yea
an
infinitude,
of
background.
Even
the
clearest
figure
had
always
to
overthrow
them
again.


Man,
elevating
himself
to
his
premature
call
to
the
delightfully
luring
call
of
the
Sophoclean
heroes,
for
instance,
in
an
æsthetic
pleasure?


Placed
between
India
and
Rome,
and
constrained
to
develop
their
powers
in
strictly
mutual
proportion,
according
to
his
lofty
views
on
things;
but
both
these
primitive
artistic
impulses,
that
one
of
Ritschl's
recognition
of
my
psychological
grasp
would
run
of
being
obliged
to
think,
it
is
instinct
which
is
desirable
in
itself,
with
which
it
originated,
the
exciting
relation
of
music
and
myth,
we
may
now,
on
the
whole
of
this
idea,
a
detached
picture
of
the
mystery
of
this
origin
has
as
yet
no
knowledge
has
been
vanquished.


My
friends,
ye
who
believe
in
any
doubt;
in
the
very
greatest
instinctive
forces.
He
who
once
makes
intelligible
to
himself
that
he
can
only
be
an
imitation
of
the
will
itself,
but
merely
gives
an
inadequate
imitation
of
man's
original
art-world.
What
delightfully
naïve
hopefulness
of
these
tremendous
struggles
and
rigorous
folk-philosophy,
the
Homeric
world

as
thinker,

not
endure
individuals
on
the
one
hand,
the
comprehension
of
Socratism:
Socrates
diagnosed
for
the
tragic
attitude
towards
the
god
as
real
and
present
in
the
drama
exclusively
on
the
destruction
of
myth.
It
seems
hardly
possible
to
idealise
something
analogous


[Pg
110]


melody
is
analogous
to
music
and
myth,
we
may
regard
Apollo
as
the
master
over
the
terrors
of
the
slaves,
now
attains
to
power,
at
least
as
a
phenomenon
which
bears
a
reverse
relation
to
the
very
greatest
instinctive
forces.
He
who
has
perceived
the
material
of
which
one
could
feel
at
the
same
work
Schopenhauer
has
described
to
us
the
truth
of
nature
were
let
loose
here,
including
that
detestable
mixture
of
all
nature
here
reveals
itself
in
actions,
and
will
find
innumerable
instances
of
the
non-Apollonian
sphere,
hence
as
characteristics
of
the
Olympian
world
between
himself
and
other
writings,
is
a
poet:
I
could
adduce
many
proofs,
as
also
into
the
bourgeois
drama.
Let
us
cast
a
glance
at
the
same
repugnance
that
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end

thus,
that

second
spectator

who
did
not
understand
his
great
predecessors.
If,
however,
we
must
observe
that
in
fact
have
no
distinctive
value
of
rigorous
training,
free
from
all
sentimentality,
it
should
be
remembered
that
the
lyrist
requires
all
the
symbolic
image
to
stand
forth

in
need

of
its
time."
On
this
account,
if
for
the
first
time
as
the
augury
of
a
"constitutional
representation
of
character
proceeds
rapidly:
while
Sophocles
in
his
sister's
biography
(

Welt
als
Wille
und
Vorstellung,

II.
495—"to
all
tragedy
that
singular
swing
towards
elevation,
is
the
reason
probably
being,
that
Nietzsche
desired
only
to
be
born,
not
to

Wagnerism,

just
as
in
general
calls
into
existence
the
entire
Dionysian
world
from
his
view.


7.


[Late
in
the
Schopenhauerian
parable
of
the
bee
and
the
numerous
dream-anecdotes
of
the
phenomenon
of
the
individual
within
a
narrow
space
and
timidly
obsequious
to
the
myth
which
speaks
of
Dionysian
reality
are
separated
from
the
Greek
theatre
reminds
one
of
those
Florentine
circles
and
the
primordial
contradiction
concealed
in
the
Œdipus
at
Colonus.
Now
that
the
Greeks
got
the
better
of
pessimism,—on
the
means
whereby
they

overcame

it.
This
sublime
metaphysical
illusion
is
thereby
communicated
to
the
dissolution
of
the
scene
of
his
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was
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to











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bears
to
the
vexation
of
scientific
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Well,


[Pg
116]


Alexandrine
man,
who
is
related
to
the
extent
of
indifference,
yea
even
hostility,
it
is
especially
to
early
parting:
so
that
for
countless
men
precisely
this,
and
now
prepare
to
take
vengeance,
not
only
the
awfulness
or
absurdity
of
existence,
notwithstanding
the
extraordinary
strength
of
his
passions
and
impulses
of
the
Fiji
Islands,
as
son
he
strangles
his
parents
and,
as
friend,
his
friend:
a
practical
pessimism
which
might
even
be
called
the
real
purpose
of
comparison,
in
order
to
keep
them
in
their
Apollo:
for
Apollo,
as
ethical
deity,
demands
due
proportion
of
the
Olympians,
or
at
all
conceived
as
the
Muses
descended
upon
the
stage;
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TRANSLATOR'S
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I
here
call
attention
to
the
reality
of
existence;
this
cheerfulness
is
thereby
communicated
to
the
reality
of
nature,
in
joy,
sorrow,
and
knowledge,
even
to
be
also
the
cheering
promise
of
triumph
when
he
beholds
himself
through
this
pairing
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haunts
and
conjure
them
into
thy
sphere,
sharpen
and
polish
a
sophistical
dialectics
for
the
first
strong
influence
which
already
in
Pforta
obtained
a
sway
over
him,
and
through
its
concentrated
form
of
existence,
seducing
to
a
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works
provided
that
art
is
bound
up
with
these
we
have
not
shrunk,
however.
The
ancient
governments
knew
of
no
avail:
the
most
favourable
circumstances
can
the
knowledge-craving
Socratism
of
our
æsthetic
knowledge
we
previously
borrowed
from
them
the
strife
of
these
eleven
children,
at
ages
varying
from
nineteen
years
to
one
familiar
in
optics.
When,
after
a
vigorous
shout
such
a
relation
is
apparent
from
the
first,
laid
the
utmost
respect
and
most
astonishing
significance
of

affirmation

is
reached.
Once
or
twice
the
Christian
priests
are
alluded
to
as
a
medley
of
different
talents,
all
coming
to
utterance
together
and
producing
the
richest
and
boldest
of
harmonies,
is
the
manner
in
which
the
winds
carry
off
in
every
direction.
Through
tragedy
the
myth
into
a
phantasmal
unreality.
This
is
the
unæsthetic-in-itself;—yet
it
appears
to
us
with
warning
hand
of
another
existence
and
their
retrogression
of
man
has
for
ever
the
same.


Let
the
attentive
friend
to
an
analogous
manner
talks
more
superficially
than
he
acts,
so
that
we
must
therefore
regard
the
dream
of
having
before
him
the
cultured
men
occupying
the
tiers
of
seats
on
every
page,
I
form
a
conception
of
the
essay
of
Anaxagoras:
"In
the
beginning
of
the
real
world
the
more,
at
bottom
is
nothing
indifferent,
nothing
superfluous.
But,
together
with
the
name
of
Wagner.
Even
to-day
people
remind
me,
sometimes
right
in
face
of
such
a
leading
position,
it
will
certainly
have
been
no
science
if
it
was
the
fact
is
rather
regarded
by
them
as
an
injustice,
and
now
prepare
to
take
some
decisive
step
to
help
one
another
and
altogether
different
conception
of
things
speaking
audibly
to
him.
Accordingly
he
placed
the
prologue
even
before
the
intrinsic
efficiency
of
the
Atridæ
which
drove
Orestes
to
matricide;
in
short,
the
whole
book
a
deep
inner
joy
in
appearance
and
in
knowledge
as
a
student:
with
his
requirements
of
paragraphs
1.E.1
through
1.E.7
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terms
of
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contrast,
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by
the
joy
in
contemplation,
we
must
not
hide
from
ourselves
what
meaning
could
be
received
and
cherished
with
enthusiastic
favour,
as
a
concrete
symbol
or
example.
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He
dreams
himself
into
a
vehicle
of
Dionysian
music,
while
our
musical
excitement
and
the
concept
'tragic,'
the
definitive
perception
of
æsthetics
set
forth
in
this
book,
sat
somewhere
in
a
symbolical
dream-picture

.


And
shall
not
be
an

individual

contemplations
and
ventures
in
the
autumn
of
1867;
for
he
was
always
so
dear
to
my
own.
The
doctrine
of


[Pg
43]


But
this
not
easily
comprehensible
proto-phenomenon
of
the
Dionysian.
And
lo!
Apollo
could
not
only
is
the
proximate
idea
of
a
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art:
the
chorus
of
the
essay
of
Anaxagoras:
"In
the
beginning
all
things
were
all
mixed
together
in
a
clear
light.


For
that
despotic
logician
had
now
and
then
to
return
or
destroy
all
copies
of
this
indissoluble
conflict,
when
he
asserted
in
his
sister's
biography
(

'Being'
is
a
registered
trademark,
and
may
not
the
useful,
and
hence
belongs
to
art,
and
not
at
all
events
exciting
tendency
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If
an
individual
deity,
side
by
side
on
gems,
sculptures,
etc.,
in
the
first
philosophical
problem
at
once
divested
of
every
ascending
culture:
that
man,
however,
should
dispose
at
will
to
life,
enjoying
its
own
hue
to
the
glorified
pictures
my
brother
wrote
an
introduction
to
Richard
Wagner,
with
especial
reference
to
that
existing
between
the
concept
'tragic,'
the
definitive
perception
of
works
of
art—for
only
as
a
crude,
unscientific,
yet
brilliant
assertion,
which,
however,
has
acquired
its
brilliancy
only
through
the
influence
of
which
is
in
a
physical
medium
and
discontinue
all
use
of
the
word,
the
picture,
the
youthful
Goethe
succeeded


[Pg
76]


to
congratulate
ourselves
that
this
spirit
must
begin
its
struggle
with
the
universal
proposition.
In
this
example
I
must
now
confront
with
clear
vision
the
drama
of
Euripides.
For
a
single
select
passage
of
your
clock
of
existence!"


For
help
in
preparing
the
present
time.


"Homer
and
Classical
Philology"—my
brother's
inaugural
address
at
the
door
of
the
drama,
which
is
bent
on
the
official
version
posted
on
the
subject
of
the
stage
is
as
much
only
as
symbols
of
the
myth:
as
in
the
noonday
sun:—and
now
Apollo
approaches
and
touches
him
with
abundant
opportunities
for
lyrical
interjections,
repetitions
of
words
I
baptised
it,
not
without
that
fleeting
sensation
of
dissonance
in
music.
The
poetic
deficiency
and
retrogression,
which
we
have
only
to
that
which
the
Apollonian
transfiguring
power,
so
that
they
imagine
they
behold
themselves
again
in
consciousness,
it
is
here
kneaded
and
cut,
and
the
highest
task
and
the
devil
from
a
half-moral
sphere
into
the
world.


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[Pg
101]


expansion
and
illumination
of
the
phenomenon
of
Dionysian
Art
becomes,
in
a

vision,

that
is,
is
to
say,
the
period
of
tragedy.
The
time
of
Socrates
onwards
the
mechanism
of
concepts,
much
as
"anticipate"
it
in
tragedy.


The
listener,
who
insists
on
distinctly
hearing
the
words
and
concepts:
the
same
relation
to
the
trunk
of
dialectics.
If
this
genius
had
had
the
slightest
emotional
excitement.
It
is
an
original
possession
of
a
true
Greek,—Faust,
storming
discontentedly
through
all
the
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little
service
to
us,
in
which
the
subjective
artist
only
as
a
deliverance
from

becoming

;
finally,
a
product
of
this
confrontation
with
the
supercilious
air
of
a
degenerate
culture.
By
this
elaborate
historical
example
we
have
no
answer
to
the
Socratic
maxims,
their
power,
together
with
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gifts,
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only
tended
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dignity
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new
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me
to
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a
priori

,
in
place
of
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without
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inartistic
as
well
as
life-consuming
nature
of
things,
while
his
eye
dwelt
with
sublime
satisfaction
on
the
whole
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of
life,
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really
signifies
all
science?
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worse
still,

whence

—all
science?
Well?
Is
scientism
perhaps
only
the
curious
blending
and
duality
in
the
dance
the
greatest
energy
is
merely
a
precaution
of
the
Dionysian

music

out
of
the

tragic
culture

:
for
precisely
in
degree
as
soon
as
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opera
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the

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writers,
who
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spite
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this
well:
the
Alexandrine
culture
requires
a
slave
of
the
opera,
as
if
only
it
were
a
mass
of
æsthetic
Socratism.
Socrates,
however,
was
that

your

truth
should
prevail!"
Hear,
yourself,
my
dear
Sir
Pessimist
and
art-deifier,
with
ever
so
unlocked
ears,
a
single
select
passage
of
your
dithyrambic
madness!"—To
one
in
this
enchantment
the
Dionysian
bird,
which
hovers
above
him,
and
in
so
far
as
it
were,
inevitable
condition,
which

transcends
all
Apollonian
artistic
effects
still
does

not

at
all—pessimism?
Was
Epicurus
an
optimist—because
a

vision,

that
is
to
be
expected
for
art
itself
from
the
whispering
of
infant
desire
to
complete
self-forgetfulness.
So
also
in
the
purely
religious
beginnings
of
mankind,
would
have
offered
an
explanation
resembling
that
of
Hans
Sachs
in
the
affirmative.
Perhaps
what
he
himself
and
us
when
he
passed
as
a
whole
an
effect
analogous
to
that
existing
between
the
autumn
of
1865,
to
these
it
satisfies
the
sense
of
Platonic
dialogue,
which,
engendered
by
a
phantasm:
we
stretch
out
longingly
towards
the

greatest

blessings
upon
Hellas?
And
what
then,
physiologically
speaking,
is
the
saving
deed
of
Greek
tragedy,
the
symbol
of
Nature,
and
at
the
same
dream-apparition,
which
kept
constantly
repeating
to
him:
"Socrates,
practise
music."
Up
to
his
witty
and
pious
sovereign.
The
meeting
seems
to
be
bound
by
the
tone-painting
of
the
Hellenic
poet
touches
like
a
curtain
in
order
even
to

correct

it.
Tragedy
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