| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42047 |
| QUOTATION: | Assuming that rapture is nature’s play with man, the Dionysian artist’s creative activity is the play with rapture. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 1, p. 555, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). “The Dionysian Worldview,” part 1 (1871).
An unpublished manuscript containing material later used in The Birth of Tragedy. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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