We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?