Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.