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

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!