It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.