The universe without music would be madness.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.