Apollo And Dionyysius Comparison

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Nietzsche defines apollo as calm and wise and dionysian is completely different, they are wild and free type of thoughts. Apollo and Dionysius was first defined differently with art examples: sculpture or artwork vs. imageless art or music. Apollo is like dream and dionysian is like intoxication. When you dream everything comes from symbolization of the real things. In dream you see symbols and physical things. Then when you are intoxicated you become wild thinker. Thinking of things probably impossible or imageless. Nietzsche even differentiated dream in Apollo and Dionysius form. If you know you are dreaming then you are apollo thinker; however if you get so absorbed into what 's happening in the dream and not know you are dreaming then you