As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

To the mean all becomes mean.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

A life without music is an error.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.