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

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs