We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.

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.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

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

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.