Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.