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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1384)

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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
Saint Augustine
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I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.
Johannes Kepler
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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
Saint Augustine
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If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
Rene Descartes
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It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.
Leon Battista Alberti
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Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
Pythagoras
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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
Johannes Kepler
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One generation and another generation the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.
Saint Augustine
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Every city is a living body.
Saint Augustine
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love if you speak, speak by love if you correct, correct by love if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
Saint Augustine
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
Rene Descartes
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
Gottfried Leibniz
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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.
Pauline Oliveros
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.
Leon Battista Alberti
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It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.
Christiaan Huygens
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
Saint Augustine
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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Saint Augustine
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Experience first, then intellectualize.
Carl Orff
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You should make great things, not promising great things.
Pythagoras
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