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Franz Grillparzer Inspirational Quotes (125)

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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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