You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Everything starts with a story.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art.