I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?
Art is the proper task of life.
Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.
When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'
"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.