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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

German - Composer December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827

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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Eyes, Man

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven

Life, Music, Spiritual

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Ludwig van Beethoven

Food, Good, Heart

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. Ludwig van Beethoven

Art, Knowledge, Man

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. Ludwig van Beethoven

Strength, Man, Face

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap. Ludwig van Beethoven

Life, I Am, Impossible

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven

Myself, I Am, You

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. - Ludwig van Beethoven

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven

Me, Fate, Overcome

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Knowledge, World

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Storm, Me

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. Ludwig van Beethoven

Children, Happy, Money

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Ludwig van Beethoven

Art, Great, Her

Music comes to me more readily than words. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Words, Me

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. Ludwig van Beethoven

Yourself, Admit, Nothing

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, God, Thank God

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. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Wine, I Am

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Time, I Am

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. Ludwig van Beethoven

Great, Nation, Precious

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' Ludwig van Beethoven

Talents, Barriers, Say

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! Ludwig van Beethoven

Happiness, Happy, Joy

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. Ludwig van Beethoven

Life, Art, I Am

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Soul, Me

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome. Ludwig van Beethoven

Business, Good, Man

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us. Ludwig van Beethoven

Artist, Mistake, Mean

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