Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes


"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Life, Music, Spiritual)

"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Life, Music, Spiritual)

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Comedy, Friends)

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Lie, Heart)

"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Nation)

"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
(Related: Music, Mankind, Wine)

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Music, Heart, Eyes, Fire, Man, Tears, Woman)

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Music, Knowledge, Mankind, World)

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Errors, Nothing)

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Music, Wisdom, Philosophy)

"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Virtue, Children, Gold)

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Experience, Money, Virtue, Children)

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther.""
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Trouble)

"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Sound)

"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
(Related: Accident, Will)

"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
(Related: Happiness, People, Joy, Nothing)

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Heart)