To Have Real Knowledge, One Must Understand

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.

Anti-semitism Has No Historical, Political And Certainly No Philosophical Origins. Anti-semitism Is A Disease.

Jewish Intellectuals Contributed A Great Deal To Insure That Europe Became A Continent Of Humanism, And It Is With These Humanist Ideals That Europe Must Now Intervene In The Middle East Conflict.

You Can't Expect Someone Born Into A Family With No Music...to Understand When I'm Conducting The Schönberg Variations.

Music Means Different Things To Different People And Sometimes Even Different Things To The Same Person At Different Moments Of His Life.