We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Those who create are hard of heart.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.