There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Art will always be art.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

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.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.