The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.