Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.