And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.