Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. Richard Wagner More Quotes by Richard Wagner More Quotes From Richard Wagner When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain. Richard Wagner profoundbelieveart The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them. Richard Wagner heartorderlong If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. Richard Wagner vegetarianismcompassionanimal The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. Richard Wagner organsvoicebeautiful I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. Richard Wagner abysslongingaffection Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know. Richard Wagner wisemenlife Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money. Richard Wagner financegovernmentpeople Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. Richard Wagner massgood-thingschange One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner imaginationmotivationalreality It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour. Richard Wagner lawfeelingspeople One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. Richard Wagner spiritmightart Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. Richard Wagner wagnermusiciansound For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing. Richard Wagner poorsounddream Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of. Richard Wagner approved I know absolutely nothing about music. Richard Wagner absolutely-nothingmusicknows These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat. Richard Wagner logicsoulart In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow Richard Wagner reincarnationkarmaviews Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man. Richard Wagner victory-and-defeatmenwar Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these. Richard Wagner lackingunderstandingwhole Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. Richard Wagner opera-singingmusiclooks
