When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.