“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.”

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

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.