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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“for only as an _æsthetic phenomenon_ is existence and the world eternally _justified”
The Birth of Tragedy, §5, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
The book's most famous formula, repeated in §24, making art rather than morality the justification of life.
Citation: "for only as an _æsthetic phenomenon_ is existence and the world eternally _justified" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §5, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q8)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
