Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Art is a delayed echo.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.