“I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.”

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.

A God-intoxicated man.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I’m not a bad person.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can’t be dirty.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

You can be a pretty face, but if you’re not a nice person, it just doesn’t work.

If you’re beautiful inside it shows on the outside.

You did not come this far to be a supporting character in someone else’s film.