"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.