When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.