Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

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