Hope is only the love of life.

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.