But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

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