The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music

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Now, just as the philosopher behaves…

In the same place Schopenhauer also described for us…

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In these Greek festivals…

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In order to be able to live…

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This deification of individuation…

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The plastic artist, as well as his relation, the epic poet…

Schopenhauer, who did not hide from the difficulty…

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If we are thus entitled to consider the lyrical poem…

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But that emphatic tradition speaks here…

On this last point…

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The satyr chorus is, first and foremost…

This conception of ours…

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There was a very ancient folk belief…

The Prometheus saga is a primordial possession…

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It has been pointed out earlier…

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The new comedy could now direct its attention…

By contrast, it is, in fact, well known everywhere…

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Now, how is Euripides' work related to this ideal of Apollonian drama?

As long as the listener still has to figure out…

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That is the immensely disturbing thing…

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For who can fail to recognize the optimistic element…

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With that statement the fundamental secret of science is unmasked…

With respect to this practical pessimism…

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Perhaps we can touch on that original problem…

Now, when in a particular case…

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At this point we are concerned with the question…

From another perspective…

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While the disaster slumbering in the bosom of theoretical culture…

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For us now it is unimportant…

Now we can immediately draw attention here…

However, if in the explanation given above…

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There is no other artistic period…

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Trusting in this noble deception…

And where we breathlessly imagined we were dying…

But nonetheless we could just as surely claim…

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That pathological purgation…

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I know that now I have to take the sympathetic friend…

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Here it is necessary for us to vault with a bold leap…

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