/lit/ - Literature

>>19384636
>Who comes after Hegel?

>“Nature in its life instinct is so good.” From there we pass on to Aeschylus, Calderon, Goethe, Shakespeare: “Since in your presence one must always discuss such nonsense.” — “Goethe, Cervantes saw and created characters, D. Q., Sancho, Faust, Mephisto; Dante, Vergil were wanderers who looked around them, whereas Aeschylus spoke like a priest in the midst of a community. Shakespeare neither the one nor the other, the most enigmatic of them all.”
>Nature in its life instinct is so good
Can someone explain how this man is a Schopenhauerian?

>>18416789
>Shakespeare therefore remained incomparable until German genius produced in Beethoven someone who can only be explained by analogy with him. If we sum up the complex of Shakespeare’s characters, as they interreact with uncommon intensity into their total effect on our innermost feeling; and if we place beside this complex that of Beethoven’s motivic world with its irrepressible forcefulness and certainty, then we must be aware that these worlds are congruent in such a way that each is contained within the other even if they appear to inhabit different spheres.

>>18410954
Yes.

>Clever though be the many thoughts expressed by mouth or pen about the invention of money and its enormous value as a civiliser, against such praises should be set the curse to which it has always been doomed in song and legend. If gold here figures as the demon strangling manhood's innocence, our greatest poet shews at last the goblin's game of paper money. The Nibelung's fateful ring become a pocket-book, might well complete the eerie picture of the spectral world-controller. By the advocates of our Progressive Civilisation this rulership is indeed regarded as a spiritual, nay, a moral power; for vanished Faith is now replaced by "Credit," that fiction of our mutual honesty kept upright by the most elaborate safeguards against loss and trickery. What comes to pass beneath the benedictions of this Credit, we now are witnessing, and seem inclined to lay all blame upon the Jews.
- Richard Wagner

>>18334869
Would it be cringe if a wore a hat like that to cover up my receding hairline?