Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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About Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, and pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, he was mentored during the Classical period, and his musical style was a key driver of the transition to Romantic music, and the expansion of instrumental forms such as the symphony, the piano sonata and the string quartet. His compositions have attracted extraordinary casual and scholarly interest, and remain among the most performed in the world.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Ludwig van BeethovenBeethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.