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

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.