I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.