Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.