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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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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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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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Freedom requires guns.
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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 wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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