Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

Some men are born posthumously.

Certitude drives people mad.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.