“Only sick music makes money today.”

“Our age knows better.... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent—it is indecent to be a Christian today.”

“Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear your requests?”

“Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only errs when he speaks, but actually lies—and that he no longer escapes blame for his lie through “innocence” or “ignorance.” The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any “God,”

“Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness”

“I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”