With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.
Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.
Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.
Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself.
I was told that there was nothing for me but to come here. But, as with life itself, it may not be our choice to come, but it is our choice to leave.
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.
This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.
The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.
Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [...]
