Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
The wise man is astonished by anything.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.