...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.