Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.