Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.