Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote highlights how artistic expression through song and dance allows humans to transcend ordinary experiences.
Friedrich Nietzsche emphasizes the transformative power of art, specifically song and dance, in enabling individuals to lose themselves in creativity. In moments of artistic expression, the constraints of language and physical limitations fade away, allowing for a feeling of flight and enchantment, as the body communicates deeper emotions that words often fail to capture.
Themes
ArtDanceSongExpressionCreativityEnchantment
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the power of art in education, one might quote Nietzsche to illustrate how creative activities can help students express themselves.
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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
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