“I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.” MindI CanEvilWishDesignBirthGayMountainSingingTragedyInspiredHonestlyGraphicGraphic DesignGood EvilZarathustraAssange Author:Dean Wareham
“Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.” PeopleDiesMastersReaderBirthTragedyCriticsMalesIncludingBackgroundsConclusionIronyRemarkableInferiorsAmbiguityCholeraMale Beauty Author:Philip Kitcher
“Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella.” LooksSeemsReadingRolesBirthHabitTragedyCopiesCommentDoubtfulExplicitReading HabitsGestation Author:Philip Kitcher
“That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.” MovingJoyFallAnswersMistakeBirthKingsTragedyArmyDepthAffectionEmpiresGreat MistakesBirth And DeathRise And FallGreat Empires Book:Jan Vedder's Wife Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.” KnowsFirstsLittlesWarEndsStoriesMightLeftForgetMistakeHeardBirthOne DayThousandComfortableTragedyCriminalsGravesCoincidenceForget ItCharlieLarksWar StoriesSmall Mistakes Author:Holly Black