Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

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

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

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