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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are some, who, from lack of experience or obtuseness, will turn away from such phenomena as "folk-diseases" with a smile of contempt or pity prompted by the consciousness of their own health”
The Birth of Tragedy, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
Nietzsche rejects the medical dismissal of medieval dancing manias as mere epidemics, treating them as survivals of Dionysian ecstasy.
Citation: "There are some, who, from lack of experience or obtuseness, will turn away from such phenomena as "folk-diseases" with a smile of contempt or pity prompted by the consciousness of their own health" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §1, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q6)
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