Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.