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.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.