To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.