Ludwig van Beethoven quotes

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
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
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce.
Ludwig van Beethoven
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
I love a tree more than a man.
Ludwig van Beethoven
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Ludwig van Beethoven
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
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
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.
Ludwig van Beethoven