Nietzsche skriver följande i The Birth of Tragedy (s. 61):

[T]he Dionysian man is similar to Hamlet: both have at one time cast a true glance into the essence of things, they have acquired knowledge, and action is repugnant to them; for their action can change nothing in the eternal essence of things, they feel that it is laughable or shameful that they are expected to repair a world which is out of joint. Knowledge kills action, to action belongs the veil of illusion — that is the lesson of Hamlet, not that cheap wisdom of Hans the Dreamer, who fails to act because he reflects too much, as a result as it were of an excess of possibilities; not reflection, no! — but true knowledge, insights into the horrific truth, outweighs any motive leading to action, in Hamlet as well as in the Dionysian man.

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