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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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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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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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