The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.