Sunday, December 24, 2017

 

A Sick, Strange Age

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Will to Power, tr. Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage Books, 1968), p. 541 (§ 1051, from 1885):
What do any latter-day men, the children of an invalid, multifarious, sick, strange age, know of the range of Greek happiness; what could they know of it! Whence would the slaves of "modern ideas" derive a right to Dionysian festivals!

Was wissen denn alle neueren Menschen, die Kinder einer brüchigen, vielfachen, kranken, seltsamen Zeit, von dem Umfange des griechischen Glücks, was könnten sie davon wissen! Woher nähmen gar die Sklaven der "modernen Ideen" ein Recht zu dionysischen Feiern!



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