Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

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.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.