"When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty……" — Richard Wagner
"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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Richard Wagner
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40 Quotes by Richard Wagner
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
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...music is the living God in our bosoms.
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In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
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One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination…
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I write music with an exclamation point!
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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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The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the…
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We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end…
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I know absolutely nothing about music.
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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
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If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
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