The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

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

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

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

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.