ABSTRACT
Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844. He went to the University at Bonn where he studied theology and classical philology, but he transferred in 1865 to the University at Leipzig, concentrating on classical philology under the guidance of Friedrich Ritschl. Wagner's creative work was an epitome, for Nietzsche, of man's highest metaphysical activity, namely, dissimulation. The intellect, as a means for the preservation of the individual, develops its chief power in dissimulation. As far as the individual tries to preserve himself against other individuals, in the natural state of things he uses the intellect in most cases only for dissimulation. Through the feeling of being obliged to designate one thing as "red," another as "cold," a third one as "dumb," awakes a moral emotion relating to truth. Everything which makes man stand out in bold relief against the animal depends on this faculty of volatilizing the concrete metaphors into a schema, and therefore resolving a perception into an idea.
