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

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.