How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.