No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

The universe without music would be madness.