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.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.