You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
