“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.” IfsBodyActionGivenAnimalEatingRootsIf I CouldSignificanceRitualGrainFillingUtilitarian Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.” MenHeartHas BeensReasonWantedJoyDesireSufferingValuesGoalAnimalCreationCreatingAcquireSignificanceWoe Author:Friedrich Nietzsche