Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.