Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

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

Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

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, Cannot

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

Accident, Birth, Thousand

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

Yourself, Nothing, Admit

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

Life, Music, Spiritual

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

Music, Heart, Woman

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

Good, Heart, Pure

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Good, Heart, Lie

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, Makes

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

Money, Experience, Alone

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

Life, Music, Spiritual

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

Face, Trouble, Mark

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

Far, Industry, Talents

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

Down, Storm, Until

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Alone, Happy, Children

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

Great, Nation, Precious

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

Great, Art, Her

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, Nothing

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

Music, God, Nothing

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Friends, Comedy, Applaud

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Biography

Nationality: German

Born: December 17, 1770

Died: March 26, 1827

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