You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

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

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.