Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.