Without music, life would be a mistake.
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer
- He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
- I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’”
- And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those seen dancing were thought insane by those that could not hear the music.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall.
Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.
Now am I light, now do I fly; now do I see myself under myself. Now there danceth a God in me—
Thus spake Zarathustra.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Also translated as "now a God dances through me"...
Do you know of Hans von Bülow's reply to Nietzsche after Nietzsche sent him one of his compositions? Not so much a hatchet job as a full-on chainsaw onslaught. Here's an extract:
ReplyDelete"I could not discover in it the least trace of Apollonian elements, and, as for the Dionysian, to tell you frankly, it made me think of the morning after a bacchanalian orgy rather than of an orgy itself.... Once again — don't take this too badly — you yourself say your music is "detestable" — it is, actually, more detestable than you believe, not in a way detrimental to the common interest, but worse than that: detrimental to you, who cannot more hideously waste your excess of leisure than in this kind of rape of Euterpe."
Here's a full translation of the letter: https://www.therestisnoise.com/2011/05/b%C3%BClow-on-nietzsche-more.html
I wonder what kind of a dancer Nietzsche was?
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