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Franz Grillparzer Inspirational Quotes (125)

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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Freedom requires guns.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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