What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Only sick music makes money today.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.