The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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

Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.