Music is essentially useless, as is life.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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