Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

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

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.