Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is either under the influence of the narcotic draught, of which the hymns of all primitive men and peoples tell us, or by the powerful approach of spring penetrating all nature with joy, that those Dionysian emotions awake, in the augmentation of which the subjective vanishes to complete self-forgetfulness”
The Birth of Tragedy, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
Nietzsche grounds the Dionysian in intoxication, whether pharmacological or seasonal, and in the loss of the self.
Citation: "It is either under the influence of the narcotic draught, of which the hymns of all primitive men and peoples tell us, or by the powerful approach of spring penetrating all nature with joy, that those Dionysian emotions awake, in the augmentation of which the subjective vanishes to complete self-forgetfulness" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q5)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
