A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
The French Revolution gave us three. . . powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas. . . are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.