 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Greek drama (Tragedy) - 1909 - 240 pages
...The affirmation of life, even in its most unfamiliar and severe problems, the will to life, enjoying its own inexhaustibility in the sacrifice of its highest...— that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I divined as the bridge to a psychology of the tragic poet. Not in order to get rid of terror and pity,... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy - Philosophy - 1910 - 244 pages
...The affirmation of life, even in its most unfamiliar and severe problems, the will to life, enjoying its own inexhaustibility in the sacrifice of its highest...— that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I divined as the bridge to a psychology of the tragic poet. Not in order to get rid of terror and pity,... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy - Philosophy - 1911 - 290 pages
...its weirdest and most difficult problems : the will to life rejoicing at its own infinite vitality in the sacrifice of its highest types — that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I meant as the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not to cast out terror and pity, or to purge... | |
 | Rose Pfeffer - Philosophy - 1972 - 308 pages
...of its perils and potentialities, its nothingness and its greatness. "The saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems; the will to life, rejoicing over its inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types— that is what I call Dionysian."28... | |
 | Morse Peckham - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 388 pages
...resolve them is to submit. Hence, Nietzsche created a new concept of tragedy. Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems, the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types — that is what I call Dionysian [of the midnight]... | |
 | M. S. Silk, J. P. Stern - Philosophy - 1981 - 456 pages
...psychology of tragedy, I have explained ... in Twilight of the Idols : " Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems; the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types — this is what I called Dionysiac, this is what I... | |
 | V. Tejera - History - 1987 - 178 pages
...at work, here, as Dionysan. Nietzsche is right about tragedy, right that "saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems, the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types," is the key to understanding tragedy. But the non-neoclassicist... | |
 | Leslie Paul Thiele - Philosophy - 1990 - 258 pages
...its strangest and sternest problems, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types — that is what I called Dionysian . . . to realize in oneself the eternal joy of becoming — that joy which also encompasses joy in... | |
 | Keith Ansell-Pearson - Philosophy - 1996 - 308 pages
...opposition and war, to passing away and destruction, to becoming and suffering, 'Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems; the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types - that is what I called Dionysian'.66 This tragic understanding... | |
 | James S. Hans - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 376 pages
...tragedy, I have explained most recently in Twilight of the Idols, p. 139: "Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems; the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types—that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I understood... | |
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Saying yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems; the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types... 
