“Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.”
“All life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...”
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
"Tragedy is the art form that gives birth to the individual."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
"There is an ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry."
"Every true tragedy comes from the conflict of two principles."
"The essence of Greek tragedy is the fusion of the Apollonian and Dionysian."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"In tragedy, we gain wisdom through suffering."