Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.