The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

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.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.