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    Only recently discovered the music of Claude Debussy, this is a wonderful piece:

    Clair De Lune:
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    I believe that legends and myth are largely made of
    “truth”, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    Indeed it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the “truth” one could still barely endure-or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
    Nietzsche

    To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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    The only time I hate Nietzsche is his claim the English have no music, fair enough this was composed long after he died but I doubt many can hear this and believe the claim.

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    I believe that legends and myth are largely made of
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    Nietzsche

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    Quote Originally Posted by Liffrea View Post
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    The only time I hate Nietzsche is his claim the English have no music, fair enough this was composed long after he died but I doubt many can hear this and believe the claim.
    Actually, it was an author by the name of Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz in his book Das Land Ohne Musik (1904) who said that (unless Nietzsche also said something similar, of course).

    Quote Originally Posted by Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz
    "Ich habe lange gesucht, was es eigentlich für ein Mangel ist, der immer wieder hinter so vielen englischen Vorzügen fühlbar wird und so erstarrend wirkt. Ich habe mich gefragt was diesem Volk fehlt, etwa Güte, Menschenliebe, Frömmigkeit, Humor(!), Kunstsinn? Nein, alle diese Eigenschaften sind in England vorhanden, manche sogar sichtbarer als bei uns. Und schließlich habe ich etwas gefunden, was die Engländer von allen anderen Kulturvölkern in geradezu erstaunlichem Maß unterscheidet, einen Mangel, den jeder zugibt - also gar keine Entdeckung - dessen Tragweite aber wohl noch nicht betont worden ist: DIE ENGLÄNDER SIND DAS EINZIGE KULTURVOLK OHNE EIGENE MUSIK (Gassenhauer ausgenommen). Das heißt nicht bloß, daß sie weniger feine Ohren haben, sondern daß ihr ganzes Leben ärmer ist. Musik in sich haben, und wäre es noch so wenig, heißt, sich verlieren können, Mißklänge ertragen, ja bei ihnen verweilen zu können, weil sie in Wohlklang auflösbar sind. Musik gibt Flügel und läßt alles Wunderbare begreiflich erscheinen."
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    I have long tried to understand what kind of lack it is that manifests itself in so many English representations which have such a deadening effect. I have asked myself what is missing from this nation. Kindness, love of people, humour or aesthetic sense? No, one can find all these attributes in England , some of them more noticeably than among ourselves. Finally I have found something which distinguishes English people from all other cultures to quite an aastonishing degree, a lack which everybody acknowledges therefore nothing new but has not been emphasised enough. The English are the only cultured nation without its own music (except street music). This does not mean that they have less sensitive ears but that their life overall is much poorer for it. To be immersed in music, even ever so little, means being able to lose yourself. To tolerate even dis-harmonies, even to spend time with such sounds since they can be resolved in beautiful harmony, music provides wings and makes everything beautiful and fantastical seem natural.
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    "For it is by no means the case that only those who believe in God could possibly have a vested interest in the question of His existence."
    --Edward Feser
    "Our civilization has had many religions and many dispensations of thought. But one of the things that we have forgotten is that open-mindedness to the future and respect for evidence does mean wooliness and an absence of certitude in what we are."
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