17 Quotes By Ludwig van Beethoven


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

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

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

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

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

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

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 on happiness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 on music

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

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

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