“In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.”

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

You are alone with everything you love.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

It’s important to take each game as a new one because carrying the highs or the lows from previous games might disturb your mindset.

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak.