Some men are born posthumously.

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

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.