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Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed...
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences dreams with profound pleasure and joyful necessity.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
I have often been told of people who have been able to continue one and the same dream over three and more successive nights: facts which clearly show that our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences dreams with profound pleasure and joyful necessity.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Diesen Ernsthaften diene zur Belehrung, dass ich von der Kunst als der höchsten Aufgabe und der eigentlich metaphysischen Thätigkeit dieses Lebens im Sinne des Mannes überzeugt bin, dem ich hier, als meinem erhabenen Vorkämpfer auf dieser Bahn, diese Schrift gewidmet haben will.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)