What Nietzsche Loved Most Was Music

“[W]hat Nietzsche loved most was music.” He “found the mundane work of politics and nationalist conquest, with its tribalism and moral pretensions, thoroughly distasteful. Instead, he considered the creative work of artists, writers, and musicians, as well as scientists, of paramount importance.”

"Hear Friedrich Nietzsche’s Classical Piano Compositions: They’re Aphoristic Like His Philosophy." Open Culture, June 11, 2015, Accessed on June 16th, 2015, http://www.openculture.com/2015/06/hear-friedrich-nietzsche-classical-piano-compositions.html

H/T John McMahon.