The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.