On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.