The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

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.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

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.