If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe ? Another act of willing?

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.