The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.