Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.