Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

All words are prejudices.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.