…it's when the aches and pains begin to come that you begin to think about them. And for Nietzsche, of course Socrates represented the beginning of the decadence in the classical tradition. He began going around asking people about things which they've been…

…that is rendered in the way of an epiphany, so that there is an inward readiness and an outer fulfillment that works. Socrates himself is reported to have spoken about the importance to him of the experience at Eleusis, that something in the way of…

…overtaking the dynamic of the will. So Schopenhauer needs to ask this question: why is it that when the philosopher comes in, like Socrates, art goes out? Socrates had a muse that came to him one day and said: Socrates, learn to sing, practice music. And…

…the will. So Schopenhauer needs to ask this question: why is it that when the philosopher comes in, like Socrates, art goes out? Socrates had a muse that came to him one day and said: Socrates, learn to sing, practice music. And so Nietzsche came up…

…that when the philosopher comes in, like Socrates, art goes out? Socrates had a muse that came to him one day and said: Socrates, learn to sing, practice music. And so Nietzsche came up with the ideal: the rescue would be the music singing Socrates. This…

…said: Socrates, learn to sing, practice music. And so Nietzsche came up with the ideal: the rescue would be the music singing Socrates. This was Thomas Mann's Ideal for his own art. You have the dionysian principle in the wonderful poetry of his prose,…

…that is rendered in the way of an epiphany so that there is an inward readiness and an outer fulfillment that works. Socrates himself is reported to have spoken about the importance to him of the experience at Eleusis. Something in the way of a…