Joseph Joachim quotes

Joseph Joachim quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethovenâ€™s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heartâ€™s jewel, is Mendelssohnâ€™s.”
-- Joseph Joachim

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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”
“Godâ€™s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the Kingâ€™s palace and the Bridegroomâ€™s Love.”
“Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.”
“I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.”
“There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it' - Â and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy and innovating in front of the world. And we have to actually reconcile those two positions. And we believe that it is much better to protect this crown jewel of civilization, which is the ability for us to communicate and express our ideas freely, than to try to lobotomize it.”
“But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body”

Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Feb 14, 2012
“PerfectÂ andÂ bulletproofÂ are seductive, but they donâ€™t exist in the human experience.”
“Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.”

Source : Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press
“...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.”

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