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

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.