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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Humanity is a comic role.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Where are we really going? Always home.

To philosophize means to make vivid.