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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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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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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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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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