Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.