A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.