Genius is talent exercised with courage.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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?

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.