There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.