Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life

Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.

I do feel like I've missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.