Quotes About Apollinian

Where we encounter the naïve in art, we should recognize the highest effect of Apollinian culture--which always must first overthrow an empire of Titans and slay monsters, and which must have triumphed over an abysmal and terrifying view of the world and the keenest susceptibility to suffering through recourse to the most forceful and pleasurable illusions.

se rejoue, à travers tous ces conflits, ce que Warburg nommera le Nachleben, la "survivance" d'une instabilité déjà centrale à la culture classique elle-même et que Nietzsche, dans La Naissance de la tragédie, avait déjà bien repérée : c'est le conflit de l'"éthos apollinien" et du "pathos dionysiaque". "Le Quattrocento, conclut Warburg, savait apprécier cette double richesse de l'Antiquité païenne.

The will-to-power is intolerant — all that is Faustian wills to reign alone. The Apollinian feeling, on the contrary, with its world of coexistent individual things, is tolerant as a matter of course.