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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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 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 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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Freedom requires guns.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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