I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.