Richard Wagner Quotations

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.