Nietzsche is famous for his severe criticism of morals and traditional European religion and conventional philosophical ideas and social aspirations - employment, class mobility, equality - as well as political desires associated with modernity such as democracy, political dissent, and respect for human rights.
In the
Birth of Tragedy
, Nietzsche dramatizes the Dionysian, dynamic, creative, ecstatic, and frenzied impulse, contrasting it to the Apollonian reason, which embodied order, discipline, and art: "The intricate relationship of the Apollonian and Dionysian in tragedy really should be symbolized by a fraternal union of the two gods: Dionysus speaks the language of Apollo: Apollo, however, finally speaks the language of Dionysus and art in general."