Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

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

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!