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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1384)

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
Saint Augustine
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Rene Descartes
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine
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I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.
Saint Augustine
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Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
Alfred Einstein
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
Gottfried Leibniz
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There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.
Roger Bacon
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Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
Alexander John Ellis
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Rene Descartes
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Life is too precious to spend it with important people.
Harry Partch
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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
Saint Augustine
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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
Saint Augustine
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The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.
Albertus Magnus
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I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.
Albertus Magnus
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Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
Albertus Magnus
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In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
Albertus Magnus
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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.
Saint Augustine
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Saint Augustine
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The world is my country. Science my religion.
Christiaan Huygens
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A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.
Olivier Messiaen
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
John Cage
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God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
Saint Augustine
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