Where Words Fail, Music Speaks. - Andersen

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Biography - Hans Christian Andersen:

Danish author. Born: 1805 - Died: 1875Period:19th centuryPlace of birth: Denmark

Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen

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(German, French) Musik spricht dort, wo Worte fehlen.Hans Christian AndersenLà où les mots manquent, la musique parle.Hans Christian Andersen

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.Victor Hugo - William ShakespeareWhere words fail, music speaks.Hans Christian AndersenDon't let words limit the possibilities of life.Alan Watts

Quotes about music:

Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols /

• life
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Music before all else.Paul Verlaine - Art Poétique /

• music

Architecture in general is frozen music.Friedrich von Schelling /

• architecture
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven /

• music
• philosophy
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If music be the food of love, play on.William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night /

• love
• music

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.Gottfried Leibniz /

• consciousness
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• music

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Quotes for: word

The word flies and cannot be recalled.Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

• word

One word and all is saved One word and all is lost.André Breton - Le revolver à cheveux blancs /

• word

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks /

• symbol
• truth
• word

Finding the right words at the right moment is action.Hannah Arendt /

• action
• now
• word

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers /

• friendship
• Language
• word

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

• Language
• word

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Hans Christian Andersen also said...

“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.Hans Christian Andersen - The Emperor's New Clothes / "Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."Hans Christian Andersen /

• flower
• freedom
• to live

Life is the most wonderful fairy tale.Hans Christian Andersen /

• life

To travel is to live.Hans Christian Andersen - The fairy tale of my life /

• to live
• travel

The world is not so bad after all, if you know how to take things as they come.Hans Christian Andersen /

• world

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