Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.