Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.