A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.