One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

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.

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