Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.