Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.