For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.