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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.”
-- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

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“Let my epitaph be, "Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook."”
-- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

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“Beauty is always queen.”
-- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

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“You see, Hansel and Gretel donâ€™t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought youâ€™d like to know.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin
“I love the voice - itâ€™s the most perfect instrument ever heard. Itâ€™s God given.”
“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”
“Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.”
“Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.”
“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”
“There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.”
“This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.”
“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor quotes

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