Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Richard Wagner's Popular Quotes

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

- Richard Wagner

It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a tr…

- Richard Wagner

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisib…

- Richard Wagner

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

- Richard Wagner

I write music with an exclamation point!

- Richard Wagner

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

- Richard Wagner

I know absolutely nothing about music.

- Richard Wagner

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

- Richard Wagner

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

- Richard Wagner