Only sick music makes money today.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.