One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Art is the proper task of life.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Art is the great stimulus to life.