73.
I leave my loftiest duty to the end, and that is to thank Wagner and Schopenhauer publicly, and [pg 102] to make them as it were take sides against themselves.
74.
I counsel everybody not to fight shy of such paths (Wagner and Schopenhauer). The wholly unphilosophic feeling of remorse, has become quite strange to me.
Wagner's Effects.
75.
We must strive to oppose the false after-effects of Wagner's art. If he, in order to create Parsifal, is forced to pump fresh strength from religious sources, this is not an example but a danger.
76.
I entertain the fear that the effects of Wagner's art will ultimately pour into that torrent which takes its rise on the other side of the mountains, and which knows how to flow even over mountains.[18]