That the artist places a higher value on appearance than on reality constitutes no objection to this proposition. For ‘appearance' here signifies reality once more, only selected, strengthened, corrected.... The tragic artist is not a pessimist – it is precisely he who affirms all that is questionable and terrible in existence, he is Dionysian...

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this.

And we had made a nice misuse of that ‘empiricism', we had created the world on the basis of it as a world of causes, as a world of will, as a world of spirit.

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!

With all willing we are dealing simply with commanding and obeying, on the foundation... of a social structure of many "souls", which is why a philosopher should exercise the right to conceive willing itself under the horizon of morality: that is, morality understood as a doctrine of the power relations under which the phenomenon "life" emerges.