Der Streit Über die Tragödie

No more than artistic activity, nor is our enjoyment of art conditioned by the intelligible insight into the reasons on which the work of art is based. And it's good that it behaves that way. If it were otherwise, all enjoyment of art would stagger. Above all, no tragic work of art should count on a sure and all the same effect. So great is the uncertainty and opposition of the views on the "cause of our pleasure in tragic objects."