My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.