When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.