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Full Idea
Without music life would be a mistake.
Gist of Idea
Without music life would be a mistake
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], Maxim 33)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.26
A Reaction
Cf Schopenhauer in Idea 21469. If you, dear reader, don't love music, then I sincerely hope that there is something in your life which can match it.
Related Idea
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| 316 | Music has harmony like the soul, and serves to reorder disharmony within us [Plato] |
| 5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |
| 20101 | Without music life would be a mistake [Nietzsche] |
| 20341 | An interpretation adds further properties to the generic piece of music [Wollheim] |
| 12168 | Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton] |
| 12875 | One false note doesn't make it a performance of a different work [Simons] |
| 20402 | Music is too definite to be put into words (not too indefinite!) [Davies,S] |