But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

The complex develops out of the simple.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.