We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Life without music is no life at all.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.