A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.