A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.