The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism

book itself the piquant proposition recurs time and again, that the

existence of the world is _justified_ only as an æsthetic phenomenon. Indeed, the entire book recognises only an artist-thought and artist-after-thought behind all occurrences,--a "God," if you will, but certainly only an altogether thoughtless and unmoral artist-God, who, in construction as in destruction...