“In Nietzsche’s mad delirium one can read something great. In his first work, as a follower of Schopenhauer, one can find an evil satire on the famous pessimist. Nietzsche replaces Schopenhauer's will, or rather, lust, with a bacchanalian principle, and when he adds the Apollonian principle to this intoxicating principle, then this is not sobering up, but only a hangover. This companion of intoxication, this severe painful state, is pessimism. If the will is replaced by a bacchanalian principle, then the world will be an orgy, and ideas will become the visions of a sick person, delirium...”