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's purpose is to make the unconscious conscious.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. Richard Wagner

is neutralized by music in the same way lamplight is neutralized by daylight.

Perhaps we can reach a starting point for this discussion when I offer the claim that the satyr himself, the imaginary natural being, is related to the cultural person in the same way that Dionysian music is related to civilization. On this last point Richard Wagner states that civilization is neutralized by music in the same way lamplight is by daylight. In just such a manner, I believe, the cultured Greek felt himself neutralized by the sight of the chorus of satyrs. (Nietzsche 'birth of tragedy' pdf. 18)

's whole duty is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

is due not to the willpower... it is fantasy and imagination that create reality.

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner

is something we must learn. Fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness Richard Wagner

Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner

is a plan that will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. Richard Wagner

is a vagrant, exile, and borrower of culture with no legitimate culture of their own. As outsider without culture, jews were incapable of making original statements in art.

For Wagner,Jews were vagrants, exiles, and had no legitimate culture of their own. Since theirs was the borrowed and impure culture of the outsider, Jews were incapable of making original statements in art... their works, Wagner declared, were derivative, plagarized, hybrid.

, being so separated from us by religion, should not have any right to make our laws.

It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews' It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.Richard Wagner

is involuntarily repugnant because they have never produced a true poet.

It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews . . . The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization. Richard Wagner

's cosmopolitan, internationalist, and culture barren nature can be ostensibly discerned in the music itself.

hybrid. These qualities were simply the attributes of jewish composers i.e., attributable to their ethnic background but qualities that were part of, and could ostensibly be discerned in the music itself.

is the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it. Richard Wagner

is ultimately not to blame for the fact that it is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honor.

It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews' It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour. Richard Wagner

Joy is not in things... it is in us. Richard Wagner

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is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.

1s 2ssence lies in the ability to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words. Richard Wagner

is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite. Richard Wagner

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

is the the oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. Richard Wagner

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