Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Life without music is no life at all.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.