Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only—annihilation.

At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite.

Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet " become conscious " of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions.

Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things.

A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.

The human is evil.

Without music, life would be an error.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.