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To Have To Fight The Instincts - That Is The Definition Of Decadence: As Long As Life Is Ascending, Happiness Equals Instinct.

To Live Alone One Must Be A Beast Or A God, Says Aristotle. Leaving Out The Third Case: One Must Be Both - A Philosopher.

Here The Spirit Becomes A Lion Who Would Conquer His Freedom And Be Master… Who Is The Great Dragon Whom The Spirit Will No Longer Call Lord And Go? ‘thou Shalt’ Is The Name Of The Great Dragon. But The Spirit Of The Lion Says, ‘i Will.

Even Today Many Educated People Think That The Victory Of Christianity Over Greek Philosophy Is A Proof Of The Superior Truth Of The Former - Although In This Case It Was Only The Coarser And More Violent That Conquered The More Spiritual And Delicate. So Far As Superior Truth Is Concerned, It Is Enough To Observe That The Awakening Sciences Have Allied Themselves Point By Point With The Philosophy Of Epicurus, But Point By Point Rejected Christianity.

We Talk So Abstractly About Poetry Because All Of Us Are Usually Bad Poets.