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Franz Grillparzer Inspirational Quotes (125)

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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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