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

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.