Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

All truths are bloody truths to me.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.