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I don’t think I have ever met a single person who isn’t moved by music of some kind.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

I find humans tremendously interesting.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.