Wolfgang Mozart Quotes

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be - though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain - because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone. ~ Oswald Spengler

Having people like that in your service degrades such service, when they are going around the world like beggars." Such was the advice from her Majesty, Empress of the German Empire, on the subject of hiring Wolfgang Mozart. ~ Robert Spaethling

Two could live as cheaply as one ~ Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Child prodigies amaze us because we compare them not with other performers who have practiced for the same length of time, but with children of the same age who have not dedicated their lives in the same way. We delude ourselves into thinking they possess miraculous talents because we assess their skills in a context that misses the essential point. We see their little bodies and cute faces and forget that, hidden within their skulls, their brains have been sculpted - and their knowledge deepened - by practice that few people accumulate until well into adulthood, if then. Had the six-year-old Mozart been compared with musicians who had clocked up 3,500 hours of practice, rather than with other children of the same age, he would not have seemed exceptional at all. ~ Matthew Syed

The present is a powerful deity. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mastery is proven only in limitation,
and law alone can give us freedom. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are we not here to make the transitory permanent? This we can do only if we know how to value both. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island. ~ Shane Smith

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One of the towering figures of the age of Enlightenment was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, known to this day in German-speaking lands as the poet of princes and prince of poets. Unlike Voltaire, he openly practiced esoteric disciplines, particularly alchemy. He wrote a famous verse about the Cathars, which translated says: "There were those who knew the Father. What became of them? Oh, they took them and burned them!" Goethe's chief work, of course, is his Faust. As noted in chapter 8, the figure of Faust was inspired by the image of the early Gnostic teacher Simon Magus, one of whose honorific names was Faustus. While in Christopher Marlowe's sixteenth-century play, ~ Stephan A. Hoeller

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you. ~ Wolfgang Schauble

Intelligent people are always the best encyclopaedia. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be. ~ Roger Daltrey

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this. ~ Wolfgang Laib

Most seasonings are based on family tradition. ~ Wolfgang Puck

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries. ~ Rae Armantrout

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Doubt can only be removed by action. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics. ~ Wolfgang Schauble

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We will not be able to meet the challenges of integration and the threats posed by international terrorism. If we want to prevent attacks, we'll need more information and better integration. ~ Wolfgang Schauble

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart. ~ Karl Barth

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One must keep repeating the Truth. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe