Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!