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Men Quotes by Richard Wagner
- Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
- It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
- It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
- I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the…
- I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the…
- Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...
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