Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.