Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.