True humility is contentment.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

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