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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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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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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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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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