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

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.

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

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

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.

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

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.