I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.