Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.