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“Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.”

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Richard Strauss, born on June 11, 1864, in Munich and died on September 8, 1949, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, was a prominent German composer known for his symphonic poems, operas, and chamber music. more

“When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.”

Art Made Silence Saws Seeing Heard Willing Quiet Creatures Silent Thee

Author:Jakob Bohme

“When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.”

Thinking Stills Self Seeing Willing Eternal Hearing Thee

Book:The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher

Source: The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher

“Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.”

Humans Voice Music Pure Singing Instruments Miraculous Egotism Human Voice

Book:Selected Prose

Source: Selected Prose

“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.”

Self Found Enchantment

Book:The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Source: The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.”

Knows Littles Spots

Book:Selected Prose

Source: Selected Prose

“... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.”

Lasts Mystery Mysterious Speculation

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.”

Knows Made Enough Mistake Forgotten Humble Made A Mistake I Have Made Mistakes Astute

Author:Michael Heseltine

“The heart is never neutral.”

Heart Neutrality

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.”

Thinking Looks Book Kids Wanted Passion Interest Imagination Fire Yeah Comic Realms This Day Comic Book Cartoon Lit My Imagination Printing

Author:Nathan Fillion

“It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.”

Humor Tests Ancient Gravity Sage

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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