When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.