Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
Friedrich NietzscheFor it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
Friedrich NietzscheIn a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
Friedrich NietzscheOne has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
Friedrich NietzscheLet us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.
Friedrich Nietzsche