A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

No victor believes in chance.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

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

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.