402 Quotes by Hungarian authors

Hungarian words often carry a sober glow, melancholy braided with stubborn hope. Proverbs speak in short, iron-edged truths, while poets linger over silence, exile, and sudden tenderness. Humor bends dry and sideways; grief is seasoned with defiance; love remembers history’s boot print. You’ll hear the clink of coffeehouse glasses, the hush of the puszta, the rustle of a worn prayer book. Freedom, fate, and home, haza, return like refrains, offering warmth as sharp as pálinka and comfort that refuses to forget.

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"I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"In Hungary, all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"I conclude that the Wagnerian operas, which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... Rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity"

George Soros, Businessman

"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics"

George Soros, Businessman

"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs"

George Soros, Businessman

"We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire"

George Soros, Businessman

"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

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