Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.