"Has it been noticed that music makes the spirit free? That it gives wings to thought? That one becomes so much more a philosopher, the more one becomes a musician?...Bizet makes me productive. All that is good makes me productive. I have no other gratitude, nor do I have any other proof of what is good" (Nietzsche: The Case of Wagner, 7).
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ReplyDelete"People imagine they are unselfish in love because they seek the advantage of another being, often in opposition to their own advantage, but for so doing they want to possess the other being... Even God himself is no exception to this rule." [The Case of Wagner, p. 9]
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