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

Respectability offends my taste.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.