On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.