Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

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.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.