The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

The universe without music would be madness.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.