The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity. Beyond Good and Evil

In the course of my life I have often had intimations in dreams "that I should make music." The same dream came to me sometimes in one form, and sometimes in another, but always saying the same or nearly the same words: Make and cultivate music, said the dream. And hitherto I imagined that this was only intended to exhort and encourage me in the study of philosophy, which has always been the pursuit of my life, and is the noblest and best of music. The Trials Of Socrates

Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone. Don Quixote

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them History as a System