Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.