One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.