Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us, nowhere do they touch u

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us, nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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Without music life would be a mistake.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.