The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.