Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker. . . Labor is the only source of wealth.
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by. . . . [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?
The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.
You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat. , Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi. ]
Invention is the mother of necessity.
It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion