All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.