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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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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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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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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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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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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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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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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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