"Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means."

"The value of an idea is not in its truth, but in its power to transform."

"The secret of life is to live as if one were immortal, and to die as if one were mortal."

"The more complex society becomes, the more primitive its foundations."

"The modern individual is an atom, but an atom with a soul."