We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!