If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.