The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.