“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. ”

“Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.”

“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.”

“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.”

“When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being.”

“Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.”

“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which makes him feel his own littleness; the eternal, the infinite, perfection, therefore scare and terrify him. He wishes to approve himself, to admire and congratulate himself; and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.”