"Wo ist dein Selbst zu finden? Immer in der tiefsten Bezauberung, die du erlitten hast. ... Die ganze Seele ist nie beisammen, außer in der Entzückung."

"Man's destiny is woman. She it is who spins the thread of his life—dark or golden."

"Des Mannes Parze ist das Weib. Sie ist's, die seinen Lebensfaden spinnt – dunkel oder golden."

"Hindus have a greater respect for the spoken word than do people in the West. Not only every word in a mantra, but practically every sound and every word in the language is called akshara in Sanskrit, which means "the indestructible." Akshara is also a name for God. A true mantra should be sung not spoken. Indian scriptures call Brahma the Creator "the first singer." Our world is said to have sprung from the mantra he sang. In the West, these ideas are probably utterly foreIgn, and yet there are traces of similar teachings.""

"“How then can you research history?” “We don’t use the same methods as our applied among those of the Evening Countries—or rather, those which were used there. The fundaments of those methods were logical conclusions and empirical research: excavations, the study of archives, the deciphering of inscriptions. These sources are deceiving: they can have different explanations, are vague, can be ambiguous and are generally superficial. We try to approach true history along clearer and more secure paths: by looking with the inner, sympathetic senses, using our minds to draw spiritual conclusions, not logical but intuitive ones. In this way a clear, faultless view of whatever happened in world history, forward as well as backward, is shown to the Blessed among us in a series of pure images.”"

"Hope and curiosity are the two big powers which force us to continue our existence in repulsive circumstances. It is exactly our not-knowing that is the thrusting power behind our most daring adventures, the constant source of our action. A man who has seen all the twists and turns of destiny and its complete unity no longer would have the courage to do anything about it. He who knows can’t act anymore."

"Extraordinary, and yet when we look in the mirror of a higher possibility it seems understandable, even self-evident."

"Your history has no age, and your age has no history."

"Strangely enough most people only do sensible things if they are ordered to."

"Many things no longer appear as “miracles” to us, if we decide to look at them through the eyes of practical physics."

"It is the politician’s profession to invent facts."

"Die Moderne ist nur in unserem Wunsche und sie ist draußen überall, außer uns. Sie ist nicht in unserem Geiste. Sondern das ist die Qual und die Krankheit des Jahrhunderts, die fieberische und schnaubende, daß das Leben dem Geiste entronnen ist. Das Leben hat sich gewandelt, bis in den letzten Grund, und wandelt sich immer noch aufs neue, alle Tage, rastlos und unstät. Aber der Geist blieb alt und starr und regte sich nicht und bewegte sich nicht und nun leidet er hilflos, weil er einsam ist und verlassen vom Leben."

"Es geht eine wilde Pein durch diese Zeit und der Schmerz ist nicht mehr erträglich. Der Schrei nach dem Heiland ist gemein und Gekreuzigte sind überall. Ist es das große Sterben, das über die Welt gekommen?"

"Art is not a Trojan horse."

"Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate."

"Don’t start anything you can’t finish."

"First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk."

"Just keep following my tears, and the brook will take you in."

"Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter."

"For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for."

"if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman."

"nothing comes of nothing after all."

"There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist."

"Forewarned is forearmed."

"I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself."

"After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. The middling level has no terrors, no anxieties. They huddle together, indulging in the illusion of warmth. If you’re alone with nothing, and certainly not yourself. And how content they are with that state of affairs!"

"Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure."

"The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable."

"Beethoven’s sonatas, whether show so much variety that one has to ask oneself the fundamental question of what the much vilified word ‘sonata means. Perhaps Beethoven applied the word to entities that are not even sonatas in the strict sense of the term. One has to perceive new law in the highly dramatic musical form. Often in the sonata, feeling eludes form. In Beethoven, that is not the case, for here the two go hand in hand; feeling makes form aware of a hole in the ground and vice versa."

"When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach."

"Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions."

"Money is unimportant, but it is reassuring to have it."

"There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him."

"There are photographs under the pistol, showing his mother genitals. These genitals make no perceptible impression on him, though it was through them that he first entered the world."

"I don’t know if it’s enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different."

"Intellectuals will still go on emphasizing free will even when they’ve got nothing left to eat."

"In the old days people had no time to harm the environment because they were busy doing harm to themselves, in the War, for instance."

"Work is not a constraint.Man's activity provides his true fulfilment. True fulfilment however,can only be achieved if one man is not another man's slave."

"Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic."

"Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place."

"The poet is a king in his realm. His is empire of imagination, in which there are unlimited mansions."

"Murder and assault are not lunacy; they are the logical conclusions if you live a life without an assured financial foundation."

"For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better."

"Death the Laveller annihilates all distinctions."

"often these women marry or they are ruined some other way."

"sewing in itself is already in the women's blood."

"The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude."

"Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted."

"Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner."

"Stifter tells us that people are not free, that they are slaves to the laws of Nature. So you have to commit violent deeds (if you don’t have anyone to do other kinds of deeds with), actions that ordinary people would call crimes but which we define as the norm, though of course it is our norm and no that of the rest."