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 Kurt Masur quotes 
Suggest Revision: If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
 
 Moses Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
 
 Moses Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
 
 Moses Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
 
 Moses Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
 
 Moses Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.
 
 Moses Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
 
 Moses Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.
 
 Felix Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
 
 Felix Mendelssohn quotes 
Suggest Revision: People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
 
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