Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.