Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Without music, life would be a mistake… I would only believe in a God that knew how to dance.
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) – I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light candles in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are […]
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
