What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

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

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.