In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.
Friedrich NietzscheIt has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.
Friedrich NietzscheThe grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
Friedrich NietzscheOne should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
Friedrich Nietzsche