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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.
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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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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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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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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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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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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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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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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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