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

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

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.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.