When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.
Richard WagnerI regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
Richard WagnerWhatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
Richard WagnerWe 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 WagnerWhether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.
Richard Wagner