Great Throughts Treasury

"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy."

"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"

"We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd."

"The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values."

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. "

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. "

"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. "

"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. "

"Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other."

"Music is only love looking for words. "

"A work of art is an experience, a soul message if you like. It is educational, if you insist, but it educates only the psyche which is ripe and ready to submit to its spell. It is never explicit; it preaches, but only in symbolic terms. "

"Truth is what most contradicts itself... Truth is a matter of direct apprehension - you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it."