How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.