Music is essentially useless, as is life.

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

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

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.