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• Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

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  Animal, Men, Compassion

  Richard Wagner (1897). “Religion and Art”, p.210, U of Nebraska Press

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• What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Cheer, Lying

  Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

  Richard Wagner

  Certain

  Diary entry for February 26, 1878. "Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment". Book edited by Geoffrey Skelton, 1994.

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• 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

  War, Men, Victory And Defeat

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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• Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

  Richard Wagner

  Approved

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• The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

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  Duty, Ability, Tempo

  Richard Wagner (1887). “Wagner on Conducting”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

  Richard Wagner

  Divorce, Mad, Heartfelt

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• 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.

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  Art, Believe, Profound

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• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

  Richard Wagner

  Fishing, Fish Tanks, Fishes

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• I wish I could score everything for horns.

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  Horny, Wish, Horns

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• In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

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  Karma, Views, Reincarnation

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• 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.

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  Change, Good Things, Mass

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• If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

  Richard Wagner

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

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  Art, Might, Spirit

  Richard Wagner (1972). “Prose works”

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• 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.

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  Understanding, Lacking, Whole

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• The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Criticism, Immoral

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• 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

  Heart, Order, Long

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Reality, Imagination

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• 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

  Government, People, Finance

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• Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

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  Life, Wise, Men

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• I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

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  Affection, Longing, Abyss

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• 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.

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  Dream, Sound, Poor

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• True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

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  Art, Drama, Discovery

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• Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

  Richard Wagner

  Musician, Sound, Wagner

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• It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

  Richard Wagner

  Men, Impossible, Hopeless

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