The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.