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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“We take delight in the immediate apprehension of form; all forms speak to us; there is nothing indifferent, nothing superfluous”
The Birth of Tragedy, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
On the dream as the physiological model of the Apollonian, in which every person is an artist of images.
Citation: "We take delight in the immediate apprehension of form; all forms speak to us; there is nothing indifferent, nothing superfluous" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q4)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
