...music is the living God in our bosoms.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

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.