Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

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