Felix Mendelssohn quote: "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, whi...
FELIX MENDELSSOHN

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is ...
FELIX MENDELSSOHN

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page be...
FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as the...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around c...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfacti...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know...
FELIX DENNIS

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Consti...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burn...
FELIX DENNIS

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett Schoo...
FELIX ROHATYN

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private i...
FELIX ROHATYN

In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Care...
FELIX ROHATYN

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that deat...
FELIX ROHATYN

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
FELIX ROHATYN

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with ...
FELIX ROHATYN

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
FELIX ROHATYN

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose an...
FELIX KLEIN

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuit...
FELIX KLEIN

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through t...
FELIX KLEIN

In '05, '06, '07 and '08, I wasn't throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or t...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, th...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder ...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay ther...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.
FELIX HERNANDEZ

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquir...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said ab...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fi...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controvers...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I aspire only to silence.
FELIX FENEON

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Ja...
FELIX FENEON

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society...
FELIX DENNIS

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
FELIX DENNIS

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
FELIX DENNIS

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
FELIX DENNIS

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra...
FELIX DENNIS

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind th...
FELIX DENNIS

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
FELIX DENNIS

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
FELIX DENNIS

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic,...
FELIX DENNIS

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them...
FELIX DENNIS

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive...
FELIX DENNIS

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
FELIX DENNIS

You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to...
FELIX BLOCH

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities...
FELIX BLOCH

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the ...
FELIX BLOCH

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
FELIX BLOCH

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in ...
FELIX BLOCH

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about ...
FELIX BLOCH

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a t...
FELIX BLOCH

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by ...
FELIX BLOCH

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast ...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time c...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the av...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather d...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I like to challenge myself.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through y...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

They call me Fearless Felix.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful pla...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the wor...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I'm retired from the daredevil business.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...
FELIX ADLER

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today...
FELIX ADLER

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of m...
FELIX ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public ass...
FELIX ADLER

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...
FELIX ADLER

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
FELIX ADLER

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns ther...
FELIX ADLER

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
FELIX ADLER

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealt...
FELIX ADLER

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
FELIX ADLER

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
FELIX ADLER

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of ...
FELIX ADLER

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement...
FELIX ADLER

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
FELIX ADLER

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc...
FELIX ADLER

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
FELIX ADLER

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, an...
FELIX ADLER

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
FELIX ADLER

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
FELIX ADLER

All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself; it cannot stand against Jesus Chr...
FELIX WANTANG

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
FELIX OKOYE

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real lif...
FELIX ADLER

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest ...
FELIX ADLER

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of th...
FELIX ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good...
FELIX ADLER

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chao...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

There can be no security where there is fear.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional pol...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest go...
FELIX ADLER

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark stre...
FELIX ADLER

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.
FELIX ADLER

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or ...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirabl...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dar...
FELIX ADLER

It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I think we’re going to have a good day today, but we should have a good day every time we come to ...
FELIX SABATES

The family is the school of duties - founded on love
FELIX ADLER

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'
FELIX SABATES

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fi...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

'Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.'
FELIX SABATES

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.
FELIX SABATES

Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a profe...
FELIX SABATES

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
FELIX COHEN

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we ...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action...
FELIX ADLER

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the...
FELIX DENNIS

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
FELIX DENNIS

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times w...
ALLYSON FELIX

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
FELIX DENNIS

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celeb...
FELIX ADLER

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we wor...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.
ALLYSON FELIX

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched b...
FELIX ADLER

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
FELIX DENNIS

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained...
FELIX ADLER

It (the meet) goes on. Everyone is use to seeing her, so it will be nice when she comes back to comp...
ALLYSON FELIX

Allyson could run any leg but leadoff. They say she doesn't have relay experience, but this spring s...
ALLYSON FELIX

I was trying to give it all I had but I knew that I could take it up. I just had to rely on all the ...
ALLYSON FELIX

It was hard to find motivation after the world championships,
ALLYSON FELIX

It was hard to find motivation after the world championships. It was a long season but I learned a l...
ALLYSON FELIX

Next season being a (non-international championship) season, I think we'll explore several options, ...
ALLYSON FELIX

I feel a lot stronger at the end of my races this year. And I have a lot more confidence in my stren...
ALLYSON FELIX

With Bobby we focus on strength,
ALLYSON FELIX

I'm really pleased with the way I am dominating the race at the moment. I put a lot of work in and i...
ALLYSON FELIX

I just didn't want to push it too hard, just wanted to get a good lane for the final,
ALLYSON FELIX

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neigh...
FELIX DENNIS

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and ...
FELIX DENNIS

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I&...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
FELIX DENNIS

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications...
FELIX KLEIN

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazin...
FELIX DENNIS

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders w...
FELIX DENNIS

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply becaus...
FELIX ADLER

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have...
ALLYSON FELIX

With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advanc...
FELIX DENNIS

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side...
FELIX MORLEY

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, peopl...
FELIX DENNIS

We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.
FELIX SABATES

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the we disbelieve we call theories.
FELIX COHEN

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Twenty years ago I was at Daytona and we qualified on the front row and somebody told me that it was...
FELIX SABATES

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.
ALLYSON FELIX

The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get g...
ALLYSON FELIX

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely...
ALLYSON FELIX

It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a fut...
ALLYSON FELIX

The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome...
FELIX DENNIS

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

Copied!

Felix Mendelssohn

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

Felix Mendelssohn

Share:

Related

More Felix Mendelssohn