It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.