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

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.