When I Examine Myself And My Methods Of Thought I

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

“Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.”

“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.”