I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

We are all different and we all have a different sense of humor.

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

A friend is someone I complain to about my other friends.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Education can change the scope of an entire family

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.