Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Certitude drives people mad.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

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

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.