Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

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

Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

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.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.