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Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>There is this famous Nietzsche quotation: "Without music life would be
>a mistake / misunderstanding." (Ohne Musik ware das Leben ein Irrtum.)
>Does anyone know when and where he said this and what the context is?
This passage is from Nietzsche's 1888 work _Twilight of the Idols_. It
is contained in a list of aphorisms at the beginning of the treatise,
and so has no immediate context. The complete aphorism (# 33) reads:
"How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God
singing songs" (tr. Kauffman, in _The Portable Nietzsche_ Penguin
1982, p. 471).
Another amusing aphorism from that work (#22) is:
"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it, then, that the Russians have
songs?"
Nietzsche was quite a character.
Regards,
Edward
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