All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.