The Only Escape From The Miseries Of Life Are

Without music, life would be a mistake.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

I see my life in terms of music.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The unexamined life is not worth living.