Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.