Beethoven/character

Famous quotes containing the words beethoven and/or character:

“No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.”
—Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827)

“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained—a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”
—Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)