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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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.
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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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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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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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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A love that dies has never lived.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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