Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
Art is the great stimulus to life.
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.