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

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.

You are alone with everything you love.

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

A God-intoxicated man.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.

For years I could not cry. And I thought there was something wrong with me. Turns out I was crying after all – just not in tears.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.