In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.