Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.