Note 1131 — Chapter VIII · DIONYSOS. (continued 2)

Nietzsche has drawn in this respect a contrast, beautiful and profoundly true, between the religion and art of Apollo and Dionysos. Apollo, careful to remain his splendid self, projects an image, a dream, and calls it god. It is illusion (Schein), its watchword is limitation (Maass), Know thyself, Nothing too much. Dionysos breaks all bonds; his motto is the limitless (Uebermaass), Excess, Ecstasy. Das Individuum mit allen seinen Grenzen und Maassen ging hier in der Selbstvergessenheit der dionysischen Zustände unter, und vergass die apollinischen Satzungen (Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie, p. 37).