Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
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.
Docility is the observable half of reason.
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.