Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.