| The society can never become religious, because the crowd mind cannot come to that flowering. To be religious is such a tremendous growth. It is the opening of your ultimate potential; it cannot be of the masses. You don’t think that one day the masses will become great painters like Picasso or Leonardo da Vinci. You don’t think that one day the masses will become great musicians like Beethoven, Mozart or Wagner. You don’t think that the masses one day will become great mathematicians like Einstein, Planck, Eddington. No, you don’t think that way. Then why do you think the masses will one day become great religious geniuses like Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mahavira, Mohammed? It is not possible... --Osho The Path of Love, ch. 4 |
Beethoven, Ludwig van
1770-1827 57 years
1770-1827 57 years
German classical music composer, pianist...
father: chef for aristocrats
mother: died when B. was 16
composed symphonies, piano sonatas, string quartets,
opera...
became totally deaf, disease beginning in his 20s.
never married, no children
died of complications of lead poisoning
father: chef for aristocrats
mother: died when B. was 16
composed symphonies, piano sonatas, string quartets,
opera...
became totally deaf, disease beginning in his 20s.
never married, no children
died of complications of lead poisoning
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