Music Is An Ocean, But The Repertory

...it Is Not What One Has Experienced But What One Does With What One Has Experienced That Matters.

Democracy Can Hardly Be Expected To Flourish In Societies Where Political And Economic Power Is Being Progressively Concentrated And Centralized. But The Progress Of Technology Has Led And Is Still Leading To Just Such A Concentration And Centralization Of Power.

Actual Happiness Always Looks Pretty Squalid In Comparison With The Over-compensations For Misery.

Consistency Is Contrary To Nature, Contrary To Life. The Only Completely Consistent People Are Dead.

A Life-worshipper's Philosophy Is Comprehensive. He Is At One Moment A Positivist And At Another A Mystic: Now Haunted By The Thought Of Death And Now A Dionysian Child Of Nature; Now A Pessimist And Now, With A Change Of Lover Or Liver Or Even The Weather, An Exuberant Believer That God's In His Heaven And All's Right With The World.