The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

A life without music is an error.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.