“Only Individuals have a sense of Responsibility”

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”

“To make an individual uncomfortable, that is my task.”

“[Dionysos'] being torn into pieces, the genuine Dionysiac suffering, is like a transformation into air, water, earth, and fire, so that we are to regard the state of individuation as the source and primal cause of all suffering.... In the view described here we already have all the constituent elements of a profound way of looking at the world and thus, at the same time, the doctrine of the Mysteries taught by tragedy: the fundamental recognition that everything which exists is a unity; the view that individuation is the primal source of all evil; and art as the joyous hope that the spell of individuation can be broken, a premonition of unity restored.”

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”