If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.