The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Life without music is no life at all.

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.