The Wise Man Doesn't Give The Right

How Can My Old Photographs Fail To Create In Me A Feeling Of Emptiness And Sorrow? They Make Me Acutely Aware That This Second Deprivation Will Be Final This Time.

Teaching And Research Are Not To Be Confused With Training For A Profession. Their Greatness And Their Misfortune Is That They Are A Refuge Or A Mission.

Our System Is The Height Of Absurdity, Since We Treat The Culprit Both As A Child, So As To Have The Right To Punish Him, And As An Adult, In Order To Deny Him Consolation.

Not Only Does A Journey Transport Us Over Enormous Distances, It Also Causes Us To Move A Few Degrees Up Or Down In The Social Scale. It Displaces Us Physically And Also For Better Or For Worse Takes Us Out Of Our Class Context, So That The Colour And Flavour Of Certain Places Cannot Be Dissociated From The Always Unexpected Social Level On Which We Find Ourselves In Experiencing Them.

Music Is A Language By Whose Means Messages Are Elaborated, That Such Messages Can Be Understood By The Many But Sent Out Only By Few, And That It Alone Among All The Languages Unites The Contradictory Character Of Being At Once Intelligible And Untranslatable - These Facts Make The Creator Of Music A Being Like The Gods.