Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.