Glauben / Faith Leben / Life Leben / Live Macht / Force Mann / Man Selbst / Himself Sinn / Sense Tugend / Virtue Tut / Does Welche / Which Wodurch / Whereby Zerstören / Destroy
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.