Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.