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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Knowledge kills action, action requires the veil of illusion--it is this lesson which Hamlet teaches”
The Birth of Tragedy, §7, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
The Dionysian man, returning from ecstasy to everyday reality, is seized by nausea and an ascetic paralysis of the will, like Hamlet.
Citation: "Knowledge kills action, action requires the veil of illusion--it is this lesson which Hamlet teaches" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §7, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q9)
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