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

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.