When Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche wrote, "From all quartersof the ancient world...from Rome to Babylon, we can point to the existence of ........festivals centered in extravagant licentiousness, whose waves overwhelmed all family life and its venerable traditions; the most savage natural instincts were unleashed, including even that horrible mixture of sensuality and cruelty which has always seemed to me to be the real 'witches' brew'." ....he was speaking of festivals most closely associated with which of these Greek gods?
a. Aphrodite
b. Apollo
c. Demeter
d. Dionysius
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a. Aphrodite
b. Apollo
c. Demeter
d. Dionysius
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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born
October 15, 1844
died
August 25, 1900
gender
male
place of birth
Röcken bei Lützen, Prussian Province of Saxony, Germany
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genre
Philosophy, History, Nonfiction
influences
Dostoevsky, Emerson, Goethe, Heraclitus, Kant, Plato, La Rochefoucauld, Schopenhauer, Pascal, Wagner, Darwin, Burckhardt, Stendhal, Spinoza
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"Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a nineteenth-century German philologist and philosopher. He wrote critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style, and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth, raise considerable problems of interpretation, generating an extensive secondary literature in both continental and analytic philosophy. Nonetheless, his key ideas include interpreting tragedy as an affirmation of life, an eternal recurrence that has become subject to numerous interpretations...more
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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