I Have Learned To Walk: Ever Since,

The Secret Of Reaping The Greatest Fruitfulness And The Greatest Enjoyment From Life Is To Live Dangerously.

"god", "the Immortality Of The Soul", "salvation", "the Beyond"-even As A Child I Had No Time For Such Notions, I Do Not Waste Any Time Upon Them-maybe I Was Never Childish Enough For That?

The Command 'become Hard! ', The Deep Conviction That All Creators Are Hard, Is The Really Distinctive Sign Of A Dionysian Nature.

This Is The Fundamental Idea Of Culture, Insofar As It Sets But One Task For Each Of Us: To Further The Production Of The Philosopher, Of The Artist, And Of The Saint Within Us And Outside Us, And Thereby To Work At The Consummation Of Nature.

Against War One Might Say That It Makes The Victor Stupid And The Vanquished Malicious. In Its Favor, That In Producing These Two Effects It Barbarizes, And So Makes The Combatants More Natural. For Culture It Is A Sleep Or A Wintertime, And Man Emerges From It Stronger For Good And For Evil.