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

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.