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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
― Edmund Burke

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
― Rene Descartes

“What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.”
― J. S. Bach

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
― Sergei Rachmaninov

“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”
― Richard P. Feynman, Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”
― Bryce W. Anderson

“If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.”
― Robert Schumann

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Tchaikovsky

“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
― J. S. Bach

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
― Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.”
― Frédéric Chopin

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you”
― Frédéric Chopin

“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West