There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.