Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.