Clergyman's

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

“I shall seize fate by the throat.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

“The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

“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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven

“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

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

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

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

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

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