Life Without Music Is No Life At

A Nation Usually Renews Its Youth On A Political Sick-bed, And There Finds Again The Spirit Which It Had Gradually Lost In Seeking And Maintaining Power.

Silence Is Worse; All Truths That Are Kept Silent Become Poisonous.

We Do Not By Any Means Think It Desirable That The Kingdom Of Righteousness And Peace Should Be Established On Earth (because Under Any Circumstances It Would Be The Kingdom Of The Profoundest Mediocrity And Chinaism); We Rejoice In All Men, Who Like Ourselves Love Danger, War And Adventure, Who Do Not Make Compromises, Nor Let Themselves Be Captured, Conciliated And Stunted; We Count Ourselves Among The Conquerors; We Ponder Over The Need Of A New Order Of Things, Even Of A New Slavery For Every Strengthening And Elevation Of The Type "man" Also Involves A New Form Of Slavery.

The Most Unambiguous Sign That A Person Holds Men In Low Esteem Is This, That He Either Acknowledges Them Merely As Means To His Ends Or Does Not Acknowledge Them At All.

The Dyed-in-the-wool Teacher Takes Everything Seriously Only With Respect To His Students--himself Included.