In Birth of Tragedy, Neitzsche says that the only way to redeem life is to view it aesthetically (or something to that effect). What do you think this means?

More generally, do you think that there is benefit to seeking beauty (or perhaps goodness) instead of ever-elusive truth?

Thanks for considering.

can't find my copy. post more of the quote to refresh my memory.

what do you think is going on?

""Truth is beauty, beauty truth.", sir!"

'Redeem' is such a loaded word. There's the suggestion that a debt or obligation of some kind is being discharged.

Redeem should be straightforward for Nietzsche...
"redeem" would be: "fetch the meaning of your miserable timid life back
from its cringing uselessness at the edge of the swirling, sucking void".

I'm afraid there are many Nietzsche quotes that might convey
the sense of the OP, although perhaps in a more invigorating manner.

Keep in mind of what Nietzsche said of the Birth of Tragdey in Ecce Homo:

"[T]oday I find [The Birth of Tragedy] an impossible book: I consider it badly written, ponderous, embarrassing, image-mad and image-confused, sentimental, in places saccharine to the point of effeminacy, uneven in tempo, without the will to logical cleanliness ... disdainful of proof, mistrustful even of the "propriety" of proof ... "

That said, he did think it had merit. I am away from my study just now, but I think if you read his assessment of that work in his reflection on his work as set forth in Ecco Homo (written with more than a twinge of irony -- it's a great work) you may get a better idea of what he meant to convey in that work.

But the OP's question is something I thought about some years ago, and I'll post again once I have a chance to review. I do have an idea however: in order to fetch one's life back (as Leo put it) one should live one's life as if it were a work of art: whatever that means.