We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.