Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.