The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.