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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
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 verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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