Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.