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

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.