Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.