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

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.