“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
Death“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
Friendship“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
Death“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
Wisdom“Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”
Happiness“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
Life“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
Friendship“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
Music“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
Peace“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
Happiness“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”
Fear“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
Wisdom“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
Death“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
Music“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
History“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
Truth“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”
Beauty“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Nature“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
Dreams“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”
Art“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
Art“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
Imagination