There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

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

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Each day is a little life.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man