The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

Humility has the toughest hide.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.