In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.